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"I, the sport of Fortune. " -- _Duke Charles of Orleans._
Jack, "ragged and tanned," half-starved, and a "footman" (as a person not in possession of a horse is termed in Australian provincial circles), was not for the moment regarded with special favour by the landlord of the Royal Pioneer.