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Excerpt from Thompson's Progress Squire Tordofi quite expected a refusal of this request, but made it on the principle that little is lost by asking. Somewhat to his surprise, he was promptly told of a burrow where the rab bits had achieved a portliness past belief, but was bidden to raid them the following after noon, or they would be collected by another hand. After which Tom's Son departed from the house feeling very pleased with himself. Squire dipped into the sevenpenny newspaper, which he and others subscribed for amongst them, with a feeling of conquest and compla cency, though if he could have known the thoughts which had been passing in the brain of the nimble-minded diplomatist who had just left him, he might not have felt so secure of his future happiness and ease. But then, of course, it was too early in life for Tom's Son to have earned the reputation of being a queer fellow to cross, which was sometimes so humorously applied to him in later years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.