But to the run. The cousins reproduced the story according to their respective powers of exaggeration. One tacked on two miles, another ten, and so it went on and on, till it reached the ears of the great Mr Seedeyman, the mighty WE of the country, as he sat in his den penning his ‘stunners’ for his market- day Mercury. It had then distanced the great sea-serpent itself in length, having extended over thirty- three miles of country, which Mr Seedeyman reported to have been run in one hour and forty minutes.

Pretty good going, we should say.


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