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For arter all, a nice, strong gibbet vith a good long drop is qvicker, neater, and much more pleasant than an 'orse's 'oof, now ain't it? Still," said Mr. Shrig, sighing and shaking his head again, "things is allus blackest afore the dawn, sir, and 'twixt you and me, I'm 'oping to bring off a nice little murder case afore long " "Hoping?" "Veil let's say expecting, sir.
They were closer spaced, too, as they come nearer, an' I reckon there wasn't more'n fifty or sixty yards atween the last two or three bursts. An' we was still walkin' on, every man wi' his reins short an' feelin' 'is 'orse's mouth, an' his knees grippin' the saddle hard. "Bang!" one hits the road about one-fifty to two hundred yards short an' we heard chips o' it whizz an' hum past us.
"Yes, there be a gap, and young Grubbles broke his 'orse's back a getting over of it last year," said the second farmer. "Did he though?" said the first; and so they both remained at the gate. And others, a numerous body, including most of the ladies, galloped up and down the cross ways, because the master of the hounds and the huntsman did so.
"Remember, Ben," she continued, speaking in a timorous voice, and her color coming and going, "remember that Greased Lightning is a very wicious sort of 'orse, and this is only a little child. Has you ever been on a 'orse's back afore, little love?" "Sometimes," replied Diana. "And my faver said when I got older he would give me a horse of my own to wide.
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