chucklingly

Updated: May 14, 2025

Then he quite calmly dropped the other parcel in its place. He was a little astonished, as he started on again, at the pregnant weight of this new parcel. But he did not stop to investigate. He did not care to gulp and lose the mystery at one swallow. He scurried off with it, chucklingly, like a barnyard hen with a corncob, to peck at it in solitude.

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