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The Obstacle Race

CHAPTER VIII
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"Let me have a cold lunch when I come in!" "Oh, dearie me!" said Mrs.Rickett.

"I do hope, miss, as young Jack'll drive careful when he's got you in the car." Juliet hoped so too as she hastened within to prepare for the expedition.
She did not feel any very keen zest for it, but, as she told Columbus, they need never go again if they didn't like it.
It was nearly ten minutes before the Fielding car reappeared, and they were both waiting at the garden-gate as it drew up.
"Yes, we were delayed," said Mrs.Fielding pettishly, "by those little fiends of children.

I do think Mr.Green might teach them to keep to the side of the road.

Pray get in, Miss Moore! Oh, do you want to bring your dog ?" "He is used to motoring," said Juliet.

"Do you mind if he sits in front ?" Mrs.Fielding shrugged her shoulders to indicate that if was a matter of supreme indifference to her, and Columbus was duly installed by the driver's side.


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