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'Likely enough, he retorted dryly, and proceeding, read the description of the half-basket hilt, inlaid with gold, and the broad blade, channeled near the hilt, and inlaid with ornaments and initials in gold. 'There is nothing in all that about the scabbard, said his father. 'Stop till we come to the history, he replied, and read on, as nearly as I can recall, to the following effect.
Then all at once I grasped his meaning. "Why, of course!" I cried. "How thick-headed of me!" I went to the bamboo half-box, half-basket Cross had made, and brought it back to where the Indian was sitting nursing his wounded leg, took off the lid, and carefully withdrew the trogon. "Is that the sort of bird you mean?" I said.
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