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“ How will you get down again? ”
“ Oh, I’ll jump down.” It was certainly
ten or twelve feet to the ground. “ Now I am
going in after Carolus; I’ll drop him down
from here, and you must be sure to catch him.”
I groped my way down the half-dark
stair-way from the loft, stumbled along, in the
pitch-black darkness of the shed, over a
chopping-block and a heap of shavings, and at
last got to the part of the wood-shed where the
hens were. I opened the door softly and
fumbled with my hand along the roost they
were sitting on. But, O dear! O dear! such a
squawking and screeching! You haven’t the
least idea how Madam Land’s hens could
squawk. It was exactly as if I were
murder-ing them all at once. Outside of the wall I
could hear Karsten fairly bowling with
laughter. I kept fumbling around in the dark,
for I wanted to find Carolus. I think I got
hold of every single hen; all their beaks were
stretched wide, letting out one and the same
piercing squawk.
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