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CHAP. XI.

———" Now what can their two noddles be about?" cried my father - - &c.----

I dare say, said my mother, they are making fortifications——

———Not on Mrs. Wadman's premises! cried my father, stepping back——

I suppose not: quoth my mother.

I wish, said my father, raising his voice, the whole science of fortification at the devil, with all its trumpery of saps, mines, blinds, gabions, fausse-brays and cuvetts——

———They are foolish things———said my mother.

Now