Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. 70

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Excerpt from Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. 70: May, 1894, to October, 1894That same shrove-tuesday (and it is well to mark the day, because Master Hill was SO superior to dates) this man, who asserted the dignity of our race by not allowing matter to disturb him, was coming down hill with his heavy drag on, in a road that was soft from the goodness Of the soil, when a man with two legs made Of better stufi than Ours, either came out of a gate across the van, or else fairly walked it down by superior speed behind. Ship ahoy he shouted and Old Hill was wide awake, for he had two or three barrels that would keep rolling into the small of his back (as he called it, with his usual Oblivion Of chronology), and so he was enabled to discern this man, and begin at his leisure to consider him.If the man had shouted again, or Shown any other symptom Of small hurry, the driver (or properly Speak ing the drifter, for the horses did their own driving, ) would have felt some disappointment in him as an inferior fellow-creature. But the man on foot, or at least on stumps, was in no more hurry than Old Hill himself, and steadfastly trudged to the bottom of the hill, looking only at the horses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.