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“Then to Velloso quoth a mate in jest (while all with meaning smile the jibe attend), ‘Holá, Velloso! sure that hilly crest is hard to climb as easy to descend.’ ‘Yea, true!’ the daring volunteer confest; ‘but when so many curs afar I ken’d packing, I hurried, for I ’gan to doubt me ill-luck might catch you were ye there without me.’