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Well, that didn't answer--at least, not ezactly; for you see I wanted to be _coaxed_ off, and I never took any partic'lar truck in sheep.

But one night--you know that big stone by the gate of the home-park?
the one Uncle Copas calls the Hepping-stone, and says the great Cardinal used to climb on to his horse from it when he went hunting ?" (Nurse Branscome nodded.) "Well, one night I closed my eyes, and there I saw all the old folks here turned into children, and all out and around the Hepping-stone, playing leap-frog.