When the boy’s father came up just in time to stop him from breaking out of bounds, and said, “Never throw a leg, lad,”
the rest of the sentence, spelt with exactly the same letters, was “over the garden wall!”
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No. XVIII
“Catastrophe,” the title of the tragedy foreshadowed, can be recast into “A cat! stop her!” By similar process the words, “New parrot stand in a house,” become “He turns on a soda-water tap!”
The parrot’s ready resource and triumph is depicted here with striking effect.
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