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The Imp sprang into view with a cr-r-r-ick, cr-r-r-ack of falling wood in the great fireplace, and there he stood bowing to Marianne from the left-hand corner of the chintz curtain. A green leaf formed his hat, some straggling branches his feet; his thin body was a single rose-stem, and his red face a crumpled rose-bud.
"At length the tree began to crack, and we all stood out from it, except Cudjo, who understood which way it would fall, and was not afraid of being crushed. Not he! for Cudjo could `lay' a tree wherever it was wanted to the breadth of a hair. "`Cr-r-r-ack! cr-r-r-r-ash! said the great sycamore, and down it came, shivering its branches into an hundred sticks as it fell.
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