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Phineas Redux

CHAPTER XVI
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"If we draw this blank I don't know what we are to do," said Mr.
Spooner, addressing himself to Madame Goesler with lachrymose anxiety.
"Have you nothing else to draw ?" asked Phineas.
"In the common course of things we should take Muggery Gorse, and so on to Trumpeton Wood.

But Muggery is on the Duke's land, and Chiltern is in such a fix! He won't go there unless he can't help it.

Muggery Gorse is only a mile this side of the big wood." "And foxes of course go to the big wood ?" asked Madame Max.
"Not always.

They often come here,--and as they can't hang here, we have the whole country before us.

We get as good runs from Muggery as from any covert in the country.


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