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Regaining his composure, he suddenly leaned forward and half whispered to the secretary: "Mah young friend, don't let Senator Langdon get switched away from Gulf City by them cheap skates from Altacoola. Now, if you'll get th' Senator to vote fo' Gulf City we'll see I'll see, sah, as an officer of th' Gulf City Lan' Company that you get taken ca-ah of." Haines' eyes opened wide.
Like a flash he was over from the fir branches into the pine ones, and up and into the nest. "His sharp teeth went into the nearest egg, and he drank its contents greedily and cleverly, let me tell you, for it's not so easy to manage without getting it all over your fur. He was just going to begin on another when there was a sharp hiss of wings just above him and a loud ca-ah of alarm.
He was just about to bite it through and try to carry it off to his nest when it occurred to him it might be a trap. He turned away discreetly, and snapped up a plump June bug. "Then the imps came sailing along. The He imp, with a loud ca-ah, perched in the top of a locust and reconnoitred the situation.