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What in the world was all this noise about! zzz! zzz! then a thump and a bump and the strangest little noises, more like a falsetto squeak than anything else. This had been going on for the last minute, which is a whole hour for a cricket, and going on while she was trying to teach Chee and Chirk and Chirp their lessons in Running and Humming.
Hop! hop! she went again, and this time she hurt him so that he twisted and turned; but he held on to Raggylug. Once more the mother rabbit hopped, and once more she struck and tore the snake's back with her sharp claws. Zzz! How she hurt! The snake dropped Raggy to strike at her, and Raggy rolled on to his feet and ran.
When it come midnight he couldn't stan' it no mo'; so he git up, he did, en tuck his lantern en shoved out thoo de storm en dug her up en got de golden arm; en he bent his head down 'gin de win', en plowed en plowed en plowed thoo de snow. En he begin to shiver en shake, en say, "Oh, my! "Bzzz zzz zzz W-h-o g-o-t m-y g-o-l-d-e-n arm?" Den he hear de latch, en he know it's in de room!
When it come midnight he couldn't stan' it no mo'; so he git up, he did, en tuck his lantern en shoved out thoo de storm en dug her up en got de golden arm; en he bent his head down 'gin de 'win, en plowed en plowed en plowed thoo de snow. En he begin to shiver en shake, en say, "Oh, my! "Bzzz zzz zzz W-h-o g-o-t m-y g-o-l-d-e-n ARM?"
They were kept by the king's and the treasurer's remembrancer, and are illustrated in print by extracts from the Memoranda Rolls, 1297, in Transactions of the Royal Hist. From the Exchequer records come also the following: Testa de Neville sive Liber Feodorum temp. Hen. ZZZ. et Edw. II., published in PALGRAVE'S Parl.
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