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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
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Without a battle!""Battle there may be:I must refuse no labour, all the same."
"Certainly, either having slain a foeWilt thou return to us, or, slain thyself,Stay there!""And, even if the game be so,The risk in it were not the first I run."
"But, say thou over-power the lord o' the place,What more advantage dost expect thereby?"
"I shall drive off his horses to the king."
"No easy handling them to bit the jaw!"
"Easy enough; except, at least, they breatheFire from their nostrils!"
