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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: term was the one by which Mr. Thomas Racquet delighted in his- tinguishing Mr. Horace Chuck. The day flew on, and Tom made up his mind to go and explain to his friends, the Rattletons, that oysters and ale always did disagree with him most particularly; but it rained hard, so he stayed demurely at Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: term was the one by which Mr. Thomas Racquet delighted in his- tinguishing Mr. Horace Chuck. The day flew on, and Tom made up his mind to go and explain to his friends, the Rattletons, that oysters and ale always did disagree with him most particularly; but it rained hard, so he stayed demurely at home all day, and went early to bed. The next morning, however, saw him up betimes, and on the box of the Bedford stage, en route for Coddlethorpe, in high spirits, and full of hope for a successful termination of his journey. As coaches in the time of Mr. Thomas Racquet did not travel with the same celerity as they do in our own more favoured period, we will take the liberty of anticipating a little, and take a peep into Coddlethorpe Hall, and there await his arrival. CHAPTER III. CODDLETHORPE HALL. The three Misses Racquet, the inhabitants and freeholders of Coddlethorpe, were, as we have already expressed ourselves, three of the nicest little bodies in existence. They very much resembled each other both in figure and features, and as if to render the similarity still more remarkable, persisted in invariably dressing alike, so that the unwary stranger was often entrapped into mistaking Miss Emily, who was the eldest, for Miss Cecilia, who was the youngest, an error which always called forth a standing set of jokes from either party, the elder always demanding what he meant by taking her for such a giddy young thing as her sister Cecily, and the younger requesting to know how much longer he would require to discover the difference between such a sprightly damsel as herself and such a prim old dowager as Emily. Miss Lucy, who always wore a very natty little pair of gold spectacles upon her nose, and had always a book in her hand, there was no mistaking; she was a great r Books, History~~General, Tom-Racquet-and-His-Three-Maiden-Aunts~~Charles-W-Manby, 999999999, Tom Racquet And His Three Maiden Aunts, Charles W. Manby, 1437353827, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<