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Updated: May 7, 2025
"As soon as dark-face saw what happened, he was obliged to scour the country for hatchets and hand-saws, and all kinds of sharp instruments, to hew himself and his men a passage through the grove. As the saying goes, many hands make light work, and sure enough, it wasn't long till they had cleared a way for themselves, thick as it was, and set off with double speed after Jack and the lady.
"'Jack, says dark-face, 'there's some born with a silver ladle in their mouth, and others with a wooden spoon; and if you'll just sit down on the one end of this clamp with me, and take a hand at the five and ten, pulling out, as he spoke, a deck of cards, 'you may be a made man for the remainder of your life.
"'I don't blame you so much, says Jack to him; 'it was the looking-glass that desaved me. That cur's nothing but a black leg! "'What looking-glass? you knave you! says dark-face, giving him a fresh haul. "'Why, the one I saw under the dog's oxther, replied Jack.
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