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and then I would like to have cheated the tipstaves out of just
one more friendly good…by。  I wanted to say good…by to
somebody; but I really couldn't feel sorry to see the last of any
one of those we passed in the streetsthey were such a dirty;
unhappy…looking lot; and the railroad wall ran on forever
apparently; and we might have been in a foreign country for all
we knew of it。  There were just sooty gray brick tenements and
gas…works on one side; and the railroad cutting on the other; and
semaphores and telegraph wires overhead; and smoke and grime
everywhere; it looked exactly like the sort of street that should
lead to a prison; and it seemed a pity to take a smart hansom and
a good cob into it。

〃It was just a bit different from our last ride togetherwhen we
rode through the night from Krugers…Dorp with hundreds of horses'
hoofs pounding on the soft veldt behind us; and the carbines
clanking against the stirrups as they swung on the sling belts。 
We were being hunted then; harassed on either side; scurrying for
our lives like the Derby Dog in a race…track when every one hoots
him and no man steps out to helpwe were sick for sleep; sick
for food; lashed by the rain; and we knew that we were
beaten; but we were free still; and under open skies with the
derricks of the Rand rising like gallows on our left; and
Johannesburg only fifteen miles away。〃





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