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Lay Morals

CHAPTER VIII--THE MAIL GUARD
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I thought he was dead.

Well, he ain't dead; but he's dying, I fancy.' 'Did you say four watches ?' said Jonathan.
'Four, I think.

I wish it had been forty,' cried Sam.

'Such a party of soused herrings I never did see--not a man among them bar poor Tom.

But us that are the servants on the road have all the risk and none of the profit.' 'And this brave fellow,' asked Mr.Archer, very quietly, 'this Oglethorpe--how is he now ?' 'Well, sir, with my respects, I take it he has a hole bang through him,' said Sam.


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