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Often, during the warm, quiet days of a bygone summer, while lying curled in a cosy litter of dry grass-bents which she had neatly arranged by turning round and round, and with her sensitive black muzzle pressing or lifting into shape each refractory twig she had dreamed of mouse-hunting and rabbit-catching; her body had moved, her limbs twitched, her ears pricked forward, and her nostrils quivered as the delightful incidents of past expeditions were recalled.
"Not much to boast in the way of a fleet," taunts Ben. "Those are the two smallest we have," quickly explains Radisson. Gillam's face went blank, and M. Radisson's eyes closed to the watchful slit of a cat mouse-hunting. "Come! Come!" exclaims Ben, with a sudden flare of friendliness, "I am no baby-eater! Put a peg in that! Shiver my soul if this is a way to welcome friends!
"One night the owl did not catch a single mouse, and so, being very hungry, drove its beak into some hen's eggs that lay in a corner, and ate them. Finding them more to its taste than the fattest mouse, and much less trouble to catch, henceforth the owl gave up mouse-hunting, and took to egg-poaching.
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