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But the instant the boy did this, he received such a stinging box on the ear, that he thought his head would fly in pieces. He was dashed first against one wall, then against the other; he sank to the floor, and lay there senseless. When he awoke, he was alone in the cottage. The chest-lid was down, and the butterfly-snare hung in its usual place by the window.
He looked at his father's gun, which hung on the wall, beside the portrait of the Danish royal family, and on the geraniums and fuchsias, which blossomed in the window. And last, he caught sight of an old butterfly-snare that hung on the window frame. He had hardly set eyes on that butterfly-snare, before he reached over and snatched it and jumped up and swung it alongside the edge of the chest.
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