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It contained eight eggs, white spotted with red. He took four 

 of them, and sitting in the fork of the tree, he blew them and 

 put them in his box. Then he thought of descending, and 

 attempted to jump to the ground. To his astonishment he 

 found himself brought up sharp, and then he saw that his 

 trousers had caught in the slit, and that a large portion of the 

 slack of them behind was firmly wedged in ; and there he hung 

 with his legs dangling in the air with ludicrous helplessness. 

 He tried to haul himself up again, but he was in such an 



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awkward position that he could not do it. He tried to open 

 the crack with his hands, but with the weight of his body on 

 the one side instead of in the middle, this could not be done. 

 In despair he let go with his hands, in the hope that his trousers 

 would tear and that he would fall to the ground ; but they were 

 too stout for that, and he only narrowly escaped turning topsy 

 turvy and hanging in a worse position. Then he fell to laugh- 

 ing vigorously at the comical scrape he had got into. He 

 did not laugh long, however, for he was very uncomfortable, 

 and kick and struggle as he would, he could not get free. 





