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Now I had thought the crab we had tried to capture before coming to the island, a prodigy unsurpassed; but this creature was more than treble its size, seeming as though a prodigious table were a-chase of them, and moreover, spite of its monstrous bulk, it made better way over the weed than I should have conceived to be possible running almost sideways, and with one enormous claw raised near a dozen feet into the air.
"Where did you learn it?" he asked, for he had had two surprises that night. "Of my mother at St. Malo," she replied. "She was half English of Jersey. You are a naughty boy," she added, with a little gurgle of laughter in her throat. "You are not a good soldier to go a-chase of the French girls 'cross of the river." "Shure I am not a good soldier thin. Music's me game.
"Where did you learn it?" he asked, for he had had two surprises that night. "Of my mother at St. Malo," she replied. "She was half English of Jersey. You are a naughty boy," she added, with a little gurgle of laughter in her throat. "You are not a good soldier to go a-chase of the French girls 'cross of the river." "Shure I am not a good soldier thin. Music's me game.
And the screaming of the maid afar off in the dark did end very sudden; but in a moment there did be other screamings in diverse places, and the hoarse shoutings of the great men and the thudding of mighty feet that ran this way and that, a-chase. And the cryings of the humans came nearer, and the thuddings of the great feet.
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