Next he took some Old Cardboard Boxes
"But that's the same Djorak who is here in the prison of the sugar-canes," interrupted Smaly, who in spite of his habit of being astounded at nothing could not help showing a little astonishment.
Opened them and shut them again
"Don't be so impatient," replied the Mother of the Crow imperturbably. "You'll understand in a moment or two. Now I have already told you that Djorak had a very good memory. At the moment when his head was falling he remembered that he had always heard one doesn't die immediately when one's head is cut off.
"It was extremely fortunate for him that he remembered this detail.
"He hastened to pick up his head, and he jumped off the scaffold holding it under his arm."
"Dear me," said Smaly and Redy.
The Mother of the Crow continued her story imperturbably: