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Robbery Under Arms

CHAPTER 14
20/22

One's been made just the same as the other.
I've often watched a dingo turn round twice, and then pitch himself down in the long grass like as if he was dead.

He's not a bad sort, old dingo, and has a good time of it as long as it lasts.' 'Yes, till he's trapped or shot or poisoned some day, which he always is,' said Aileen bitterly.

'I wonder any man should be content with a wicked life and a shameful death.' And she struck Lowan with a switch, and spun down the slope of the hill between the trees like a forester-doe with the hunter-hound behind her.
When we came up with her she was all right again, and tried to smile.
Whatever put her out for the time she always worked things by kindness, and would lead us straight if she could.

Driven, she knew we couldn't be; and I believe she did us about ten times as much good that way as if she had scolded and raged, or even sneered at us.
When we rode up to Mr.Storefield's farm we were quite agreeable and pleasant again, Jim makin' believe his horse could walk fastest, and saying that her mare's pace was only a double shuffle of an amble like Bilbah's, and she declaring that the mare's was a true walk--and so it was.

The mare could do pretty well everything but talk, and all her paces were first-class.
Old Mrs.Storefield was pottering about in the garden with a big sun-bonnet on.


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