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that tames him when he outrages the 

 bounds. If I only could find the Buga- 

 boo of the Gulper ! * 



" So he sought and sought and sought ; 

 then he came to the country whence they 

 had brought the Gulper, and there he 

 found the Gulper's Bugaboo. It was noth- 

 ing but an ordinary monoculous Angle- 

 tail. It was a slim yellow thingwith very 

 short legs, one immense red eye at each 

 end of its body, and a long thin tail that 

 grew out of the middle of its back and 

 was carried stiffly raised and pointing be- 

 hind. The Angletail could go backward 

 or forward equally well, but one could 

 always tell beforehand which way it was 

 going, because the tail would switch over 

 and point backward, and the eye at the 

 end which now became the rear would 

 lose its light and would go sleepy, while 



