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  me, Doctor, what in the devil ever possessed me to tell such a villainous story! That cat? Ach!—yes—p'st!—scat, you beast!"

I walked over and put a "sheep-shank" in the lanyard on the cage of the tulu-pial bird, and then the cat was unable to reach it. [ 244 ]