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CHAPTER XIV. REEDS AND RUSHES.

'Tis merry, 'tis merry in Fairyland,
When Fairy birds are singing;
When the court doth ride by their monarch's side,
With bit and bridle ringing.
Walter Scott.


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[Turn your back on the light, and you'll follow a shadow.]

Turn your back on the light, and you'll follow a shadow.
The deaf queen Fate has dumb courtiers.
If the hound is your foe, don't sleep in his kennel.
That that is, is.