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The Governor took extreme delight in these practical jokes. He had won these articles of Sir Asinus's clothing one after another; and now he was about to commence with the remainder. "Look! spadille, the ace!" he cried; "I have your neckcloth." And his Excellency burst into a roar of laughter. Sir Asinus slowly and sadly drew off his neckcloth, and deposited it on the pile.
The only adventure that befell in this romantic place was that Asinus's legs went deep into a hole: whereupon his rider went over his head, and bit the sand, and measured his length there; and upon this hint rose up, and rode home again.
Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the rider expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian gamin, who ran along by asinus's side. The character of the houses by which you pass is scarcely Eastern at all.
"Well, Doctor, much success to you. Will you not permit me to convey you to the college?" The hair upon Sir Asinus's head stood up; then at the Doctor's reply he breathed freely again. That reply was: "No, I thank you; your Excellency is very good, but it is only a step." And the Doctor rode on with a bow.
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