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Then, before you are well seated at table, a child is yelling :—' The cows are over the fence ;' or ' The sheep are in the crop ,' and everyone jumps up and runs ... And when you have managed to drive the cows or the sheep into their paddock and put up the rails, you get back to the house nicely ' rested ' to find the pea-soup cold and full of flies, the pork under the table gnawed by dogs and cats, and you eat what you can lay your hands on, watching for the next trick the wretched animals are getting ready to play on you.
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