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Title: Our village
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920
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Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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shopkeeper ; teased b\- allthe children, and scouted by all the animals of theparish ;—but yet living through his griefs, and bearingthem patiently, for sufferance is the badge of all histribe;—and even seeming to find, in an occasionalfull meal, or a gleam of sunshine, or a wisp of drystraw on which to repose his sorr\- carcase, some com-fort in his disconsolate condition. In this plight was he found by ^la.y, the most high-blooded and aristocratic of greyhounds ; and from thisplight did May rescue him ;—invited him into herterritory, the stable ; resisted all attempts to turn himout ; reinstated him there, in spite of maid and boy,and mistress and master ; wore out everybodys oppo-sition, by the activity of her protection, and the per-tinacity of her self-will ; made him sharer of her bedand of her mess ; and, finally, established him as oneof the family as firmly as herself Dash—for he has even won himself a name amongstus, before he was anonymous—Dash is a sort of a kind
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^Mf ?i. By sheer beggary. THE SHAW 185 of a spaniel ; at least there is in his mongrel composi-tion some sign of that beautiful race. Besides hisugliness, which is of the worst sort-- that is to say, theshabbiest—he has a limp on one leg that gives a

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