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CHAPTER VI--THE GREAT SEARCH AT NETHER-MOYNTON
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We have got the day before us, and 'tis hard if we can't light upon 'em and get 'em to Budmouth Custom-house before night.

First we will try the fuel-houses, and then we'll work our way into the chimmers, and then to the ricks and stables, and so creep round.

You have nothing but your noses to guide ye, mind, so use 'em to-day if you never did in your lives before.' Then the search began.

Owlett, during the early part, watched from his mill-window, Lizzy from the door of her house, with the greatest self- possession.

A farmer down below, who also had a share in the run, rode about with one eye on his fields and the other on Latimer and his myrmidons, prepared to put them off the scent if he should be asked a question.


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