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A Dash from Diamond City

CHAPTER TWELVE
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"Let's have off the saddles and bridles now.
Have you hobbled them well ?" "Look," said West.
"Capital.

I didn't doubt you; but you might have made a mistake, and if we dropped asleep and woke up to find that the ponies were gone it would be fatal to your despatch." "Yes; but one of us must keep watch while the other sleeps." "It's of no use to try, my lad.

It isn't to be done.

If we're going to get into Mafeking in a business-like condition we must have food and rest.

Come, the horses will not straggle away from this beautiful moist grass, so let's lie down in this shady cave with its soft sandy bottom and sleep hard till sunset.


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