Well then, again, they may have gone across the water somewhere—more likely the States than anywhere else; it is a big place for hiding in, and when a fellow has done a bit of clever sharping here and knows that he is wanted, he somehow always makes for the States, just as naturally as a duck takes to water.
— from Dorothy's Double. Volume 2 (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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