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He walked up the path in a cautious manner, as though he expected at every step to trip over the wire of a spring-gun; but when he came within a dozen yards of the house he quickened his pace, for Aunt Mabel had opened the door, and was standing ready to give him a welcome. "Why, boy, how late you are! You must be nearly starving!" "I couldn't come before," he began; "I had some work to do, and "
Toby scratched his head as though he considered that, having been the first to make the suggestion, it was up to him to say something, no matter how. "Well, there's the spring-gun trap, you know," he remarked, without once stuttering, which fact proved that he was deliberately taking his time about answering. "What sort of arrangement do you call that, I'd like to know!" asked Steve.
He found his food there till his wound was healed. Once he met with a spring-gun, but it was set too high. Six feet up, the sheep-folk judged, would be just about right for such a Bear; the charge went over his head, and so he passed unharmed a clear proof that he was a devil. He was learning this: the human smell in any form is a smell of danger.
By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so beset by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one could scarce walk at large without the risk of letting off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap.
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