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THE SUNDERING FLOOD
into a land of little hills and streams, with green meadows for the most part, but here and there a little tillage, and a good many houses, yet these but the cots of the husbandmen. This day they rode long and late, yea, till it had been dark night but for the rising of the moon upon them. At last said one of the men to another: We shall not do it to-night; let us rest, and come in fresh a-morning-tide. So again that night they had the shelter of the trees and the fields, but on the morrow betimes they were up and rode forward.
