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Galloping Dick

turnpike to Uxbridge, ere ever a jannizary was in sight. And ’twas not till I was come under Tyburn Tree that I dropped him off the saddle, whence he fell with a splash into some muddy pool that the stream makes there. But as for me, I galloped on, feeling, as you may suppose, mightily out of appetite with women.

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