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Updated: May 13, 2025
In fact, except in matter of size, they could see very little difference between the giants and themselves. All Zebedee Nabbum's warlike and elephant-trapping schemes melted away entirely, and he even began to have a sort of conscientious scruple against enticing away the big fellow who proved to be such a jolly good-humored giant. He was prepared for resistance.
Your climate, your food, your houses, your laws, your customs every thing would be unlike what mine has been. I am too old, to weary of life, to begin it again in a new world." So, my young readers, not to weary you with any more accounts of Huggermugger's sickness, I must end the matter, and tell you plainly that he died long before they reached America, much to Mr. Nabbum's vexation.
The good-hearted sailors did all they could for her, which was not much. Even Zebedee Nabbum's feelings were touched. He told her Yankee stories, and tales of wild beasts of elephants, not bigger than one of her pigs of lions and bears as small as lapdogs of birds not larger than one of their flies. All did what they could to lessen her sufferings.
'The captain's locked the door and taken the key with him, replied the footman; 'he said he'd be back in a day or two. 'Where is he gone? The man smiled. 'Borrowed, observed Captain Quod, with an emphasis. 'Indeed! exclaimed Sir Harry, adding, 'well, I thought that was Nabbum's gig with the old grey. 'He'll not be back in a hurry, observed Bouncey.
Scrawler, though delighted to get hold of such a story to put into his book, could not help feeling a superstitious fear that the prediction might be verified, and some misfortune before the good Huggermuggers. It could not come from him or any of his friends, he was sure; for Zebedee Nabbum's first idea of entrapping the giant was long since abandoned.
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