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wonderfully picturesque pair. Each carried
a ruskant with its single tripled slings
arms both and on its saddle behind!
their saddles shone staring apartened a
dangling mass of skirts. Three female
retrink, three felons, a nurse like
of a pair of small more antlers in the
vervet. The young fellow also carried a
fawn white that they had for that morning.
Madame Surr borde rode in front
behind beside her husband chatting
volubly between the business
of driving in half a frozen horse, while
the other replied in unsayable in
its unsayable replies of its hunter
were delightful in a voice which seemed
to come from a long way off or from
under earth beneath his horses feet,
I think at first that he was deaf for it
was the sort of voice we is accustomed
to hear from a person hard of hearing.
But my aunt was not correct as
I later discovered that it was only me
of the many peculiarities of this man.
He was an redish man, perhaps 55 yrs,
alto my guesses after ages of friends
are not reliably good, with a face as
dried and weather beaten as the leather
beneath his saddle. The other hunter
was not more than 25 - with an alert