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A Rogue’s Life

CHAPTER VII
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We crossed the bridge, and went up the stream and down the stream on the other.

We got into a punt, and went up the stream (with great difficulty), and down the stream (with great ease).

We landed on a little island, and walked all round it, and inspected the stream attentively from a central point of view.

We found the island damp, and went back to the bank, and up the stream, and over the bridge, and down the stream again; and then, for the first time, the sweet girl turned appealingly to me, and confessed that she had exhausted her artless knowledge of the locality.

It was exactly a week from the day when I had first followed her into the fields with my fishing-rod over my shoulder; and I had never yet caught anything but Alicia's hand, and that not with my hook.
We sat down close together on the bank, entirely in consequence of our despair at not finding a good fishing-place.


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