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“Let me hold that book, if you please. It belongs to Lord Fredrick, and I do not want it going astray again.”

If not for Old Timothy leading the hounds astray until she and the children had nearly reached the house, they would have been at the mercy of Lord Fredrick’s wild shots.

And that schism is not because rural voters misunderstand their “self-interest” or because racial dog whistles have led them astray.

Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, hornswoggled by hand-me-down history.

While Atencio had once dreamed of being a journalist, his work as an animator had led him astray of a writer’s path.