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was a long time before we learned the cause and manner of his taking off. At last a friend confessed to us that a neighbor of hers who had suffered many a time from the raids of King Cole upon her chicken-yard, one day found him beneath the high valanced bed in her room worrying a little chicken he had driven in from the yard‘ The woman declared that her patience then and there came to an end, and so she summoned her husband to the scene‘ He brought his gun and put an end to our poor King Cole’s life‘

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