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in panic from side to side. At length one clumsy long- 

 shanks stumbled over some part of the long body, which 

 turned on it in an instant, and embraced it with fifty legs 



while a pair of sharp sickles were buried in its throat. 

 While it was being eaten there was an interlude, and the 

 musical box played a tune. Then, to vary the performance, 

 we introduced one of those globular beetles which will be 

 for ever tumbling on their backs, and cannot right them- 

 selves. Once and again and a third time, with the rash 



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