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_"Boy, go order me a four-in-hand"_

_The Landlady with an "underdone visage"_

_"I looked at the ladder and at the top front seat"_

_"Down came a shower of rain"_

_"Ask the waiter what the French words mean"_

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_Jone giving an order_

_The Carver_

_"You Americans are the speediest people"_

_"That was our house"_

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_"The young lady who keeps the bar"_

_"I see signs of weakening in the social boom"_

_At the Abbey_

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_"There, with the bar lady and the Marie Antoinette chambermaid, was
Jone"_

_"At last I did get on my feet"_

_"Rise, Sir Jane Puddle"_

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_"In an instant I was free"_

_"If you was a man I'd break your head"_

_"I'm a Home Ruler"_

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_"And with a screech I dashed at those hogs like a steam engine"_

_"In the winter, when the water is frozen, they can't get over"_

_"Who do you suppose we met? Mr. Poplington!"_

_Mr. Poplington looking for luggage_

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_Pomona encourages Jonas_

_"Stop, lady, and I'll get out"_

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_"Your brother is over there"_

_To the Cat and Fiddle_

_"And did you like Chedcombe?"_

_"Jone looked at him and said that was the Highland costume"_

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_"I didn't say anything, and taking the pole in both hands I gave it a
wild twirl over my head"_

_Pomona drinking it in_

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_"A person who was a family-tree-man"_

_"This might be a Dorkminster"_

_Jone didn't carry any hand-bag, and I had only a little one_

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POMONA'S TRAVELS

This series of letters, written by Pomona of "Rudder Grange" to her
former mistress, Euphemia, may require a few words of introduction.
Those who have not read the adventures and experiences of Pomona in
"Rudder Grange" should be told that she first appeared in that story as
a very young and illiterate girl, fond of sensational romances, and
with some out-of-the-way ideas in regard to domestic economy and the
convent