[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrownsmith’s Boy CHAPTER FOURTEEN 18/18
You'll see that get more round to the nor-east as we gets nigher to London." So it proved, for by degrees I saw the stars in the north-east pale; and by the time we reached Hyde Park Corner a man was busy with a light ladder putting out the lamps, and it seemed all so strange that it should be broad daylight, while, as we jolted over the paving-stones as we went farther, the light had got well round now to the east, and the daylight affected Ike, for as, after a long silence, we suddenly heard once more from the top of the baskets: "I've been to Paris and I've been to Dover!" Ike took up the old song, and in a rough, but not unmusical voice roared out the second line: "I've been a-travelling all the world over." Or, as he gave it to match Do-ho-ver--"O-ho-ver." And it seemed to me that I had become a great traveller, for that was London all before me, with a long golden line above it in the sky..
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