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A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s

CHAPTER V
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He has offered a liberal prize for the best conditioned one exhibited at the next Agricultural Fair.

Since this offer was made, a very decided improvement has been noticed among the donkeys of the London costermongers, as if the competition for the first prize was to be a very large one.
It will be a kind of St.Crispin's Day to the whole of the long- eared race--a day of emancipation from forty centuries of obloquy and oppression.

Doubtless they will be admitted hereafter to the Royal Agricultural Society's exhibitions, to compete for honors with animals that have hitherto spurned such association with contempt..


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