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to smaller joints lately, to my thinking, Mr. Day?'

'Only two or three little scram rabbits this last week, as I be alive—I wish I had.'

'Well, my wife said to me—(Dan! not too much, not too much at a time; better go twice)—my wife said to me as she posted up the books: "Sabley," she ses, "Miss Day must have been affronted this summer during that hot muggy weather that spoilt so much for us; for depend upon't," she ses, "she've been trying Joe Grimmett unknown to us: see her account else." 'Tis little, of course, at the best of times, being only for one, but now 'tis next kin to nothing.'

'I'll inquire,' said Geoffrey despondingly.

He returned by way of Mellstock, and called upon Fancy, in fulfilment of a promise. It being Saturday, the children were enjoying a holiday, and on entering the residence Fancy was nowhere to be seen.

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