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INCIDENTS AND PREDICAMENTS 99station and broken intoBut Ithe refreshment room.found that my Partner, who had had thesame idea, was there before me. So we joinedforces and formulated a longlist of demands.The man in charge gladly puthis stores at ourdisposal, and we bore away tea, sugar, butter, aloaf of bread and many other things. We alsoadded to the interesting collection of china inSIEGLINDA several new and valuable piecesbelonging to the Highland Railway Company,but these were restored later on at a stationfarther up the line.The next dayI discovered an obscure butcher'sshop, so called. Itwas a small wooden erection,modestly lurking by a little stream some way offthe road ;and it was locked up, nor was thereany sign of a proprietor. But by peering in at thewindow I observed, not without some excitementat the discovery, a leg of mutton hanging all alonein the gloom.was not long in introducing myself to a washerwoman,hard atI made a good many enquiries andwork before her tub, who wasforced to admit that the shop belonged to her,that itdid happen to have a legof mutton in itand that she was quite prepared to sell it,if I insisted. I wondered, as I went awaywith my parcel, if I had unwittingly cut