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THE MERRY-GO-ROUND.
I The holidays were over.

The Coles were once more back in Polchester, and the most exciting period of Jeremy's life had begun.

So at any rate he felt it.

It might be that in later years there would be new exciting events, lion-hunting, for instance, or a war, or the tracking of niggers in the heart of Africa--he would be ready for them when they came--but these last weeks before his first departure for school offered him the prospect of the first real independence of his life.