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an earth, up to which his hounds have hunted?
seeing that those hounds so plainly show their
contentment with having succeeded, and done
all that was required of them.

All, “Bravo! bravo! well said, thou bold
Dragoon !”

“Now, Berkshire, we pray thee tell us
whether thou dost like a royal neighbourhood ;
whether thou art safer, and whether thy treat-
ment there is preferable to our own. ‘Tell us all
that thou canst, as thou livest. nearer to those

parts than most of us do.”