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heath, but it was overgrown with ferns andbrambles and ditched with great muddy pools as if no onemended or repaired it—and no one traveled it. It was all avast desert of waste and decay, hid by the dark of the night. Peterkin knew how useless it would be to try to makehis way forward before… … along the deserted road. There were puddles to wade andvines to skip and rocky barriers to climb. There were ruts 72 THE ADVENTURES OF PETERKIN where the leaves of the past autumn had buried themselvesin a soggy mass or where the summer dust had sifted intofoolish heaps. There were trunks of fallen…
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