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The New Forest Spy, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The New Forest Spy
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: W.D.E. Evans
Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23502]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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The New Forest Spy
CHAPTER ONE.
AN ENCOUNTER IN THE WOOD.
"Hullo! What's that?"
The lad who uttered those words dropped a short, stiff fishing-rod in amongst the bracken and furze, and made a dash in the direction of a sharp rustling sound to his right, ran as hard as he could, full-pelt, for about five-and-twenty yards, and then, catching his toe in a tough stem of heather, went headlong down into a tuft of closely-cropped furze--the delicate finer kind--which had been nibbled off year after year till it had assumed the form of a great green-and-gold cushion, beautiful to look at, but too pointed in its attentions to make a pleasant resting-place.
"Bother!" shouted the boy, as he scrambled up. "Oh, what an ass I am! Anyone would think I was old enough to know that I couldn't catch a rabbit on the run, even if he had no hole among the hazel-stubbs. Hole? Hu