spinney

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Retired again to far side of spinney and disguised myself in pair of false whiskers, which I always keep for these occasions.

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Day in we hunt the spinney fox, Day out the rapparee; His cave is in the broken rocks Above the Correi-buidhe.

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Next season, at a "coffee-housing" by a spinney side, where hounds were at work, an old friend of the bereft uncle ventured to condole with him on his loss.

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Do ye mind the time he fought young Mr. Welsh over yonder in the spinney with half the countryside watching?

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The hounds got him out of the spinney where he was known to reside, in no time, but he immediately took refuge in another and a larger one half a mile or so off.

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