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the poor-man's-wall. 137
Helen said, " that when she went to school, her little pets were all given to farmer Johnstone's daughter, Susan. Minny and Bob were still alive and well, and the little ones they had nursed so tenderly were grown as large as themselves."
And now Mr. Ashton told the little party, they must leave the carriage, and ascend the lofty rampart which they saw before them; and which, he said, was reported to have been formerly used as a place of security for the distressed Britons, when invaded by their powerful foes, the Romans; being still known by the designation of the Poor-man's-wall. The intrenchment, which is accessible only by a narrow projection to
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