He encounters a "coomb," and wonders if it is soft at the bottom.]

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[Illustration: WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET

_Sportsman_ (_from the bog_). "Confound you, didn't you say there was a

sound bottom here?"

_Shepherd._ "Zo there be, maister; but thou 'aven't got down to un

yet!"]

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[Illustration: BUGGLES WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET