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Through the Fray

CHAPTER I: A FISHING EXPEDITION
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There's good fishing in the stream for yourself, captain, and you can't get a quieter and cheaper place in all England.

I ought to know, for I was born upon the moorland but six miles away from it, and should have been there now if I hadn't followed my man to the wars." "Where are you going, Master Ned ?" she asked as the boy, having finished his dinner, ran to the high cupboard at the end of the passage near the kitchen to get his fishing rod.
"I am going out fishing, Abijah." "Not by yourself, I hope ?" "No; another fellow is going with me.

We are going up into the hills." "Don't ye go too far, Master Ned.

They say the croppers are drilling on the moors, and it were bad for ye if you fell in with them." "They wouldn't hurt me if I did." "I don't suppose they would," the nurse said, "but there is never no saying.

Poor fellows! they're druv well nigh out of their senses with the bad times.


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