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chairs were flung at them, and they would have been knocked down if they had not run away.

The day before yesterday they seized a spy of the police and gave him a ducking in the fountain.

They ran him down like a stag, hustled him, pelted him with stones, struck him with canes, forced one of his eyes out of its socket, and finally, in spite of his entreaties and cries for mercy, plunged him a second time in the fountain.