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cripples of the Cebida species had been assigned winter- 

 quarters in the kitchen of a New-Orleans boarding-house. 

 They could be trusted, as their complex ailments dis- 

 qualified them from running and climbing, their only 

 mode of progression being a sidelong wriggling on their 



haunches and elbows. But one 

 day the landlady heard 

 a frightful caterwauling, 

 and, entering the kitchen 

 in haste, was surprised 

 to see one of her 

 patients on top 



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of the chimney-ladder, while another was rolling about 

 in a fit of fantastic contortions. The cook had left on 



