Can past perfect be used twicw or theice in a single sentence?

e.g Earlier he had made a tour to see what everbody had been planting that summer and his eye had been caught by Brer Fox's peanut patch.

Is the above sentence correct or do we use simple past in the second and third instance?

We use the past perfect tense to talk about an action that was completed before another action or before a specific time in the past. Perfect tense can be used twice or thrice in a sentence, but it must be done cautiously.  

The above sentence is not correct. The correct sentence would be "Earlier, he had made a tour to see what everybody was planting that summer and his eye was caught by Brer Fox’s peanut patch."

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