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... Mite , who was accredited to be the smallest lad who ever wore a gaiter within its precincts , felt , and said , and circulated in prose , and sometimes poetry , that ' there was one , and one only , in the Derby . ' The parrot at the ...
... Mite , who was accredited to be the smallest lad who ever wore a gaiter within its precincts , felt , and said , and circulated in prose , and sometimes poetry , that ' there was one , and one only , in the Derby . ' The parrot at the ...
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... Mite's merits and moral worth were not to be weighed in this fashion . He had the confidence of his master as being one of those good boys ' that would not play the monkey . ' Mite abjured tricks , and was as grave and almost as ...
... Mite's merits and moral worth were not to be weighed in this fashion . He had the confidence of his master as being one of those good boys ' that would not play the monkey . ' Mite abjured tricks , and was as grave and almost as ...
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... Mite , ' one of the Un- known's plates will be nailed on the door of his box as the winner of the Derby . ' ' Why so ? ' asked his companion . ' Because of my going in strong for it to - day , ' rejoined Mite . I shall pin my faith to ...
... Mite , ' one of the Un- known's plates will be nailed on the door of his box as the winner of the Derby . ' ' Why so ? ' asked his companion . ' Because of my going in strong for it to - day , ' rejoined Mite . I shall pin my faith to ...
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... Mite , the Unknown's being wound up for his great engagement next month , and you ride him in his exercise - gallops , Taddy . I wonder you've not grown proud . ' ' To look after such a race - ' oss , ' responded his companion , ' is ...
... Mite , the Unknown's being wound up for his great engagement next month , and you ride him in his exercise - gallops , Taddy . I wonder you've not grown proud . ' ' To look after such a race - ' oss , ' responded his companion , ' is ...
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John Mills. ' My sentiments all over ! returned Mite . ' There's no- thing like sentiments such as them . I often feel ' em , ' con- tinued he , pressing a hand upon what he probably meant his breast , but which , in a strictly ...
John Mills. ' My sentiments all over ! returned Mite . ' There's no- thing like sentiments such as them . I often feel ' em , ' con- tinued he , pressing a hand upon what he probably meant his breast , but which , in a strictly ...
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added the Colonel appeared arms asked Aubrey Leferne Aunt Margaret began Billy Bottles Brentford Bromley Marsh brow chair CHAPTER cheeks Colonel Leferne colours colt continued the Colonel daffodils dairyman Dame Soppy dear boy Derby ejaculated exclaimed eyes feel felt fingers fixed gamekeeper gaze gentleman Greatwood Park hand Harry Girling head heard heart horse inquired Ivy Girling Jacket and Gaiters Jeremiah Early Johnny Tadpole knew lawyer Leferne's lips listen little Mite look Mark Rookson Master Aubrey never Newmarket nose observed the Colonel old grey mare perhaps possessed Queen Mary race rejoined the Colonel remarked repeated replied the Colonel responded the Colonel resumed the Colonel returned the Colonel Robert Roundhead Samuel Wideo scarcely seemed silence smile Soppy's speak spoke stood Taddy there's things Thomas Soppy thought tone and manner turned Unknown vicar voice wife William Bottles wish words
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