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The Virginians

CHAPTER XV
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The other dogs about which Mr.William is anxious, for Heaven hath made him a prey to dogs and all kinds of birds, like the Greeks in the Iliad----" "I know that line in the Iliad," says Harry, blushing.

"I only know five more, but I know that one." And his head fell.

He was thinking, "Ah, my dear brother George knew all the Iliad and all the Odyssey, and almost every book that was ever written besides!" "What on earth" (only he mentioned a place under the earth) "are you talking about now ?" asked Will of his reverence.
The chaplain reverted to the dogs and their performance.

He thought Mr.
William's dogs were more than a match for them.

From dogs they went off to horses.


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