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weed, and bolts along the passage as if he had an acceptable
commission to carry the old gentleman to the nearest vol-
cano. His shorter trust, however, terminating at the cab, he
deposits him there; and the fair Judy takes her place beside
him, and the chair embellishes the roof, and Mr. George
takes the vacant place upon the box.
Mr. George is quite confounded by the spectacle he be-
holds from time to time as he peeps into the cab through
the window behind him, where the grim Judy is always mo-
tionless, and the old gentleman with his cap over one eye
is always sliding off the seat into the straw and looking up-
ward at him out of his other eye with a helpless expression
of being jolted in the back.

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