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Then the Gaffer had the boy upstairs and administered to him a huge dose of salts, seeing him swallow every drop; and when the effects of the medicine had worn off he was sent for a walk to Portslade in two large overcoats, and was accompanied by William, whose long legs led the way so effectively. On his return a couple of nice feather beds were ready, and Mr. Leopold and Mr.
It was clear they thought that there was something in the last words of the fainting Demon, and the pan was withdrawn. But when the boy was got into the scale again it was found that he was not yet nearly the right weight, and the Gaffer ordered another effort to be made. The Demon pleaded that his feet were sore, but he was sent off to Portslade in charge of the redoubtable William.
It was ten to one that Silver Braid would turn it up, or that the boy wouldn't 'ave the strength to ride out so close a finish as it was bound to be. I thought then of the way you used to take him along from Portslade, and I'd have given something to've put a pound or two of flesh into his thighs and arms. The Tinman was riding splendid, getting every ounce and something more out of Bullfinch.
There wasn't twopence-halfpenny worth of strength in him pulling off those three or four pounds pretty well finished him. He'll never be able to ride that weight again.... He said afore starting that he felt weak; you took him along too smartly from Portslade the last time you went there." "When he went by himself he'd stop playing marbles with the boys round the Southwick public-house."
Love is blind, but sometimes there is no love. How then shall we explain this inexplicable mystery; wonderful riddle that none shall explain and that every generation propounds? Frank lingered in Southwick, for he had promised Willy to stay with him when he went to live at the stables on the Portslade Road.
Public conveyances run from Brighton to Shoreham several times each day by Portslade and Southwick; the railway to Worthing also follows the road and little will be lost if the traveller goes direct to New Shoreham.
Brookes, but his words were weak, it being doubtful if even Meason could add to the original offence, so culminating and final did it seem to him. "Maggie didn't tell you that last week she met him on the sea road, and walked with him into Portslade." "Father, father, I beg of you, now, don't cry; think of the servants."
A puff of steam showed up upon a distant field, and the train came along from Portslade, one of the links of the great chain of towns that binds the south coast. "I hope Frank won't arrive in Brighton before me," thought Willy. They had been big boy and little boy at school.
If I don't walk to Portslade and back every second day, I go up three or four pounds. Then there's nothing for it but the physic, and that's what settles me. Can you take physic?" "I took three Beecham's pills once." "Oh, that's nothing. Can you take castor-oil?" Esther looked in amazement at the little boy at her side. Swindles had overheard the question and burst into a roar of laughter.
Let's talk of something else. I have some news. I am going in for breeding race-horses." "What do you mean?" "What I say. I have calculated it all out, and I find I shall make from fifteen to twenty per cent, on my money." "By breeding race-horses! And where are you going to breed them?" "You know those stables on the Portslade Road where the veterinary surgeon used to live?
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