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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 BCKUFF OE 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 



