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Updated: June 22, 2025
Tell him to bring a light." The housekeeper came, wonderingly, with a watch-man's oil-lantern, and we all went to the floor below. Opposite the lift was a glass door from which a bill had recently been torn. "Why, it's let!" said Mr. Bell. "Yes, sir," assented the housekeeper. "Let a day or two ago to a Mr. Catherton Hunt. Or, at least, a deposit was paid."
"Now, careful, careful; bring him up to the boat where I can reach him; e-easy, Blix. If he bolts again, let him run." Twice the trout shied from the boat's shadow, and twice, as Blix gave him his head, the reel sang and hummed like a watch-man's rattle.
All eyes were turned towards Francois, who, like a little god, stood enveloped in a halo of blue smoke. Francois was the hero of the hour. Marengo rushed forward and seized the struggling owl, that snapped its bill at him like a watch-man's rattle. But Marengo did not care for that; and seizing its head in his teeth, gave it a crunch that at once put an end to its flapping.
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