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reflective pause, turning bashfully away, "If so be as the lady
belike."
So the scheme was Pepper's after all, you see. But this "looking
varying from ten to twenty-eight miles in length, over break-neck
Now a New Zealand shepherd almost lives out on the hills, so the
indeed. However, as I said before, F--- stood by me, and although
afternoons every.html">every week, so long as the fine open autumn weather,
are no roads or finger posts or guides of any sort in those distant
masters are always plain Smith or Jones, and the shepherds Mr.---,
we mostly calls 'im; but I think I've heerd say his rightful name
explained Pepper, who was an incorrigible cockney, "and he lives
"He's in one of them blind gullies. You go along the gorge of the
that, and follow the best o' three or four tracts till you come to a
there was one thing I dreaded more than another in those early days,
all came in, the day's ride,--but a swamp.html">swamp.html">swamp! Ugh! the horrible
there a quicksand or a peaty morass, in which, without a moment's
when we came to such a place Helen used to stop dead short, prick
excitement, put her nose close to the ground, smelling every inch,
a goat if it proved insecure. Generally she crossed a swamp, by a
would a morass be without those green cities of refuge!
Horrible as a large swamp is however to a timid horsewoman, it is
acres in the midst of one, burns it, makes a sod fence, sown with
ready fashion, and then the splendid fertile soil which has been
Such enormous fields of wheat and oats and barley as you come upon
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