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So, again, I was told that the foals of cart and race-horses breeds which have been almost wholly formed by selection under domestication differed as much as the full-grown animals; but having had careful measurements made of the dams and of three-days-old colts of race and heavy cart-horses, I find that this is by no means the case.
Under the overhanging ingle-nook, in which a ham or two were hanging overhead, sat Davie in his own special corner and his own special chair, calmly smoking; opposite sat Jock, a black-bearded man of sturdy build, who was also smoking. Both were listening to Maggie Jean, who, seated near her father, was reading in a monotonous voice the choice extracts from a three-days-old local paper.
The next morning she awoke irritable and fatigued; and a little of the same feeling oppressed both Cynthia and Molly. The former was lounging in the window-seat, holding a three-days-old newspaper in her hand, which she was making a pretence of reading, when she was startled by her mother's saying, 'Cynthia! can't you take up a book and improve yourself.
As to the other newcomer, who had lately spoken so warmly of the Colthwaite Company, he was now silent, apparently greatly absorbed in a three-days-old newspaper that he had picked up. Yet he managed to cast more than one covert glance at the boys.
The guns that grew active at dawn had not woke him; in those twelve days they had grown too familiar, but he woke wide when he heard the young English soldier with a bundle of three-days-old papers under his arm calling "Paiper, paiper!" bringing to that strange camp the voice of the English towns.
Fresher events were already crowding this three-days-old wonder to the wall. "Verdict in the case of Wallace Pfeiffer, found lying dead on the hearthstone of the old Moore house library. "Concussion of the brain, preceded by mental shock or heart failure. "The body went on to Denver to=day." And below, separated by the narrowest of spaces: "Mr. and Mrs.
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