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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER XVII
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What does all that signify ?--the game is against his master, who is a down pin, is thinking of emigrating, and wants money confoundedly.

He asked seventy pounds at the fair; but, between ourselves, he would be glad to take fifty here." "I almost wish," said I, "that I were a rich squire." "You would buy him then," said the landlord.

Here he mused for some time, with a very profound look.

"It would be a rum thing," said he, "if, some time or other, that horse should come into your hands.

Didn't you hear how he neighed when you talked about leaving the country.


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