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Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Reddlemen of the old school are now but seldom seen. Since the introduction of railways Wessex farmers have managed to do without these Mephistophelian visitants, and the bright pigment1 so largely used by shepherds in preparing sheep for the fair is obtained by other routes. Even those who yet survive are losing the poetry of existence which characterized them when the pursuit of the trade meant periodical journeys to the pit whence the material was dug, a regular camping out from month to month, except in the depth of winter, a peregrination2 among farms which could be counted by the hundred, and in spite of this Arab existence the preservation3 of that respectability which is insured by the never-failing production of a well-lined purse.
Reddle spreads its lively hues4 over everything it lights on, and stamps unmistakably, as with the mark of Cain, any person who has handled it half an hour.
A child's first sight of a reddleman was an epoch5 in his life. That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation6 of all the horrid7 dreams which had afflicted8 the juvenile9 spirit since imagination began. "The reddleman is coming for you!" had been the formulated10 threat of Wessex mothers for many generations. He was successfully supplanted11 for a while, at the beginning of the present century, by Buonaparte; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ineffective the older phrase resumed its early

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conspirator
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divers
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harassing
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joyousness
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worthy
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