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Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide, / By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried; / Log in the reh-grass, hidden and alone; / Bund where the earth-rat's mounds are strown: / Cave in the bank where the sly stream steals; / Aloe that stabs at the belly and heels, / Jump if you dare on a steed untried -- / Safer it is to go wide -- go wide! / Hark, from in front where the best men ride: -- / "Pull to the off, boys! Wide! Go wide! " / The Peora Hunt.
Once upon a time there lived at Simla a very pretty girl, the daughter / of a poor but honest District and Sessions Judge. She was a good girl, / but could not help knowing her power and using it. Her Mamma was very / anxious about her daughter's future, as all good Mammas should be.