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Tom Brown’s Schooldays

CHAPTER IV--THE STAGE COACH
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Takes town a week to get clean after it.

Fairish hunting country.

But slow place, sir, slow place-off the main road, you see--only three coaches a day, and one on 'em a two-oss wan, more like a hearse nor a coach--Regulator--comes from Oxford.

Young genl'm'n at school calls her Pig and Whistle, and goes up to college by her (six miles an hour) when they goes to enter.

Belong to school, sir ?" "Yes," says Tom, not unwilling for a moment that the guard should think him an old boy.


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