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Next a thrush came along the low hedge, then two blackbirds, all so quick that Bevis could not make them understand him. A crow too appeared, but catching sight of Bevis's cannon-stick, he smelt the powder, wheeled round and went by far to the left hand out of talking distance. Still more starlings rushed overhead, and Bevis waved his hand to them, but it was no use.
"I had so much to do," said Bevis; "there was the weasel and my cannon-stick." "But I wanted you very much," said the wind, "because I love you, and longed for you to come and visit me." "Well, now I am come," said Bevis. "But where do you live?" "This is where I live, dear," said the wind.
This instrument, which I hear he constructed himself, thereby displaying unparalleled ingenuity, he calls his cannon-stick.
"But you tried to kill him once before, did you not?" said the thrush. "You hold your tongue, this minute, you impudent thrush," said Bevis, in a great rage; and he took his cannon-stick off his shoulder, and looked so black that the thrush, alarmed for his safety, took advantage of a hedge being near, and slipped through it in a second.
Now if we could persuade him to become our ally, and to bang off his cannon-stick when Choo Hoo comes, I think we should soon see the enemy in full retreat, when the noble dictator, Ah Kurroo Khan, could pursue, and add another to his already lengthy list of brilliant achievements.
"Yes, you rascal!" said Bevis, putting a pinch of powder on the touch-hole, "you know you are a wicked story-teller; you killed the poor leveret after I let you loose. Now!" and he went down on one knee, and put his cannon-stick on the other as a rest to keep it straight. "Wait a minute," said the weasel, "just listen to me a minute. I assure you "
He took his cannon-stick with him heavily loaded, and the charge rammed home well, meaning to shoot the weasel; if the wretch would not come out when called upon to receive the due punishment of his crimes, he would bang it off into his hole in the tree, and, perhaps, some of the shot would reach the skulking vagabond.
But his remark was unheeded by all save the fox, whose quick ear caught it. Again there was a great clamour and uproar, and not a word could be heard, and again Bevis had to lift up his cannon-stick. Just then Ah Kurroo Khan sent a starling to know if they had finished, because Choo Hoo had quitted his camp, and his outposts were not a mile off.
"So I will," said Bevis, "but how can I hit you both?" "I will show you," said the weasel. "I will walk along the bank till I am just in a line with the thrush's nest, and then you can take aim at both together." So he went along the bank and stopped behind the nest, and Bevis moved his cannon-stick and took another aim.
"I want to know who Kapchack is, this minute," said Bevis, "this very minute, mind." "Well I never!" said the toad, "well I never! Don't you know?" "Tell me directly this very minute you horrid old toad!" "Don't you really know?" said the toad. "I'll have you shovelled up, and flung over to the pigs, if you don't tell me," said Bevis. "No, I'll get my cannon-stick, and shoot you!
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