The Village
ely
digested or cracked up before it is emptied into finer and more
delicate tals of the
village -office, and the
bank; and, as a necessary part of t a bell, a
big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses
o make t of mankind, in lanes and
fronting one anot every traveller o run the
gauntlet, and every man, a lick at him.
Of course, tationed nearest to the line,
prices for the few
straggling inants in tskirts, whe line
began to occur, and traveller could get over urn aside
into co ground or window
tax. Signs o allure o catch
ite, as tavern and victualling cellar; some by
tore and thers by
t or ts, as the shoemaker,
or tailor. Besides, till more terrible standing
invitation to call at every one of these houses, and company
expected about times. For t part I escaped wonderfully
from t once boldly and
deliberation to to the
gauntlet, or by keeping my ts on hings, like Orpheus,
o his lyre, drowned
t out of danger.quot; Sometimes I
bolted suddenly, and nobody could tell my
stand muc gracefulness, and never ated at a gap in a
fence. I omed to make an irruption into some houses,
ained, and after learning the kernels and
very last sieveful of news -- w s of
her
muc out the rear avenues, and so
escaped to the woods again.
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