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Hitherto the canut had been honest; the silk for his work was weighed out to him in hanks, and he brought back the same weight of woven tissue; now he made up his mind that the silk merchants were oppressing him; he put honesty out at the door and rubbed oil on his fingers.
The Shtcherbatskys made the acquaintance too of the family of an English Lady Somebody, and of a German countess and her son, wounded in the last war, and of a learned Swede, and of M. Canut and his sister.
LL. Edg. apud Wilkins, p. 80. LL. Ethelredi, Sec. 4 apud Wilkins, p. 103. Hloth. and Eadm. Sec. 16. LL. Canut. Sec. 2. LL. Aelf. Sec. 4. Sec. 12, 13.
The two-thirds also which went to the king, made no contemptible part of the public revenue. Sec. 5. Wilkins, p. 78. LL. Canut. Sec. 17. Wilkins, p. 77. LL. Canut. Conf.
KNOT. Tringa canutus, Brisson. French, "Becasseau canut," "Becasseau maubèche." Common as the Knot is on the south and west coast of England during autumn and winter, it is by no means so common in the Channel Islands. I have never shot it there myself in any of my autumnal expeditions.
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