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"Whaur's the lions, and the teegers, and the elephants, and the boy instructor, and the black man?" said a disappointed countryman, addressing a fellow in a short canvas frock or overall, who was crossing the area with a bucket of water.
"It's awfu'," observed Saunders, in a kind of solemn astonishment as a frightful caterwaul burst upon their ears. "I wadna like to hear teegers in the same state o' mind." "Or elephants," murmured Moses Pyne, who was more than half asleep.
"It wasn't a teeger, Miss Jessie," interposed Sandy Black, "it was only a leopard ane o' thae wee spottit beasts that they're sae prood o' in this country as to ca' them teegers." "Come, Sandy," cried Jerry Goldboy, "don't rob me of the honour that is my due. The hanimal was big enough to 'ave torn you limb from limb if 'e'd got 'old of you."
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