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'Twas my friend the pickpocket: and he sat before a fire of dry sticks a little way back from the road. His scanty hair, stiff as a badger's, now stood upright around his batter'd cap, and he look'd at me over the bushes, with his hook'd nose thrust forward like a bird's beak. "Bien lightmans, comrade good day! 'Tis a good world; so stop and dine." I pull'd up my grey.
"It is a perfect little Giant's Causeway," said Henrietta; "do look at these lovely little columns, Fred." "Ah!" said Jessie, "Myriads of little salts, or hook'd or shaped like double wedges.
"That's what made me bite, Mr Simple; I thought of the old woman, and how comfortable it would make her in her old age, and so, d'ye see, I sacrificed myself." "How long have you been married, Swinburne?" "Ever since Christmas '94. I wasn't going to be hook'd carelessly, so I nibbled afore I took the bait.
It was lucky for that Tartar of a wife of his that she hook'd it, or he'd soon have put a stop to her sleep-walking. There's no such wide difference between a man and a tiger, after all. The tiger's a decent fellow enough till he has tasted human blood; but when once he has, Lord save the country-side from the jaws of the man-eater!" "For Heaven's sake let us waste no time in talk!"
Then he darted down, skimming pretty close to the stream rose slowly, a magnificent sight, and sail'd with steady wide-spread wings, no flapping at all, up and down the pond two or three times, near me, in circles in clear sight, as if for my delectation. Once he came quite close over my head; I saw plainly his hook'd bill and hard restless eyes. It is four-fifths of the utterance of birds.
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