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I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

Tonight we're going to be reading in the Vine Country by Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. It was published in 1893.

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In the vine country, chapter one, it was our first day's cub hunting and things had been going against us from the outset. To begin with, we had started rather late. It is noticeable that the

minutes between 5 and 6 a.m. are fewer and closer together than they are at any other period of the day.

And when halfway to the meet, we found that Betty

had given way to her sporting proclivities and had surreptitiously followed us. When it is explained

that Betty is a St. Bernard puppy of cart horse dimensions,

whose expression of smiling imbecilately only cloaks a will of iron,

it will be understood that there was trouble before us.

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