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One of the 28th

CHAPTER II
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Here they changed horses at the Fountain Inn.
"Look here, my boy," the woman said to Ralph.

"If you feel underneath my feet you will find a basket, and at the top there is an empty bottle.

There will be just time for you to jump down and get it filled for me.

A shilling's worth of brandy, and filled up with water.

That girl Eliza flustered me so much with her worritting and questions before I started that I had not time to fill it." Ralph jumped down and procured the desired refreshment, and was just in time to clamber up to his seat again when the coach started.


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