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Title: Up the Hill and Over
Author: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
Release Date: December 12, 2003 [eBook #10438]
Language: English
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UP THE HILL
AND OVER
BY
ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY
Author of "The House of Windows," etc.



_The road runs back and the road runs on,
But the air has a scent of clover_.
_And another day brings another dawn,
When we're up the hill and over_.

TO MY MOTHER
WHO MIGHT HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK HAD SHE LIVED TO READ IT


CHAPTER I

"From Wimbleton to Wombleton is fifteen miles,
From Wombleton to Wimbleton is fifteen miles,
From Wombleton to Wimbleton,
From Wimbleton to Wombleton,
From Wombleton--to Wimbleton--is fif--teen miles!"
The cheery singing ended abruptly with the collapse of the singer upon a
particularly inviting slope of grass.
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