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Out rushed the servants, out poured the gents of the hunt, and on trotted poor me, digging into the donkey, and everybody dying with laughter at me. Just as I got up to the door, a horse came galloping up, and passed me; a man jumped down, and taking off a fantail hat, came up, very gravely, to help me down. "Squire," says he, "how came you by that there hanimal?
"Come off, clumsy! you can't manage that I ere fine hanimal," cried the liveryman. "Ah! he's a lamb, sir, if he were backed properly. But I has not a man in the yard as can ride since Will died. Come off, I say, lubber!" But to come off, without being thrown off, was more easily said than done.
By Jove, I'm like the British footman in 'Punch, 'what with them legs o' mutton and legs o' pork, I'm a'most wore out! I want a new hanimal inwented! I've found an old girl down in the valley who consents to look after me and vary the monotony of my dinners at the highest market price. She isn't here yet, but the cabin is about ready. I want you to come down and look it over.
"Says Mac to him, 'What do you call that creature? "'Moose, said he. "'Do you pretend to tell me, said Mac, 'that that henormous hanimal, with orns like a deer, is a moose? "'I don't pretend at all, said he; 'I think I hought to know one when I see it, for I have killed the matter of a undred of them in my day. "'It's a daumed lee, said the sergeant.
"So, you see, Mr Macallan, in two scrummages only two men were killed out of hundreds, and they were the two who had killed the cat! Now, that's what I calls proof positive, for I seed it all with my own eyes; and I should like to know whether you could do the same, with regard to that thing being a hanimal?" "I will, Marshall; to-morrow you shall see that with your own eyes."
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