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 of the neck, I slung him over my shoulder, and, neither staggering nor stumbling under this enormous burden, I bore him in triumph back to the menagerie. You may



I SEIZED HIM BY THE SCRUFF OF THE NECK

imagine that I was pleased with myself, and will probably suppose that my fortune was made and my position assured for the rest of my life. Anything but that; my master was on his way into Spain, and, as I did not know Spanish, be