Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 491
oks of the Eighteenth Cejitury. them before him, he bought a bundle of sticks, then desiredeach of them to break it, which they strove to do, but couldnot. Well, said he, unbind it, and take every one a singlestick, and try what you can do that way. They did so, andwith ease they snapped all the… … A Fox that had been run hard, begged of a countryman,, whomhe saw hard at work in a wood, to help him to a hiding place.The man directed him to a cottage, and thither he went. Hewas no sooner got in, but the Huntsmen were at his heels, andasked the cottager, If he did not see the Fox that way ?…
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