Identifier: yoicksheadstales00brow (find matches)
Title: Yoicks! : heads and tales, tips and turns over (with a spill or two thrown in)
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882
Subjects: Horses English wit and humor Fox hunting
Publisher: London : "Judy" Office
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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. Do you see, its brighterover there ? I dont notice 7mech difference, said our Other Jones. Were getting to the fens now, continued his companion. Theyreswarming there. Mind, heres another plank, and no hand-rail again. Thefens are straight ahead. Go on quietly, and I 11 catch you up. Our Other did as he was told, not, however, without considerable misgivings.He did not quite see how he could ask his companion to lead him along anyfarther, unless his companion volunteered to do so, and this he did not do.Therefore, exercising the utmost caution, our Other tottered across the plankand felt his way into the darkness beyond. 93 6
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TRUE VALOU R. Country Gentleman (to Foreign Friend). Hi! there; fire, man! don^t you seethat liar J hach there ? FoKEiGNER. Vat! shoot zepoor ting down as it retreat? No, no, my good saire,rait till he turn ahouts and face mc, then I mill—zing ! Advancing a step at a time, he suddenly came upon a shallow pond, and wasinto it with both feet before he could pull up. Returning hastily, he began tawork his way round the bank, wondering which way he ought to go. All at once, however, it struck him that his friend the Vet. was very slow infollowing, and he stood still to listen. Not a sound was audible. He shouted again and again, but received no reply. He began to feel uneasy. He turned his back on the pond and walked straightahead for twenty yards, till he came to a ditch. He kept by the side of it forabout twenty yards farther, then turned and walked straight ahead again, andthis time straight into another ditch. Still it was pitch dark. He was veiy wet and very cold, and was beginning

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