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" No, old boy/' I replied, " not for a hundred 

 guineas/' 



That day we killed seventeen couple of cocks. 

 A little before three it began to snow heavily 

 again, so we sent on the guard to the little bourg 

 where we had put up the trap to tell the man 

 to get the cart ready at once, and bring it down 

 to the chateau. 



After getting a sort of resin candle from 

 -a farm close by, we started on a house ex- 

 ploring expedition, as we were curious to know 

 about the large cellar of wine reported to be 

 in the old chateau. 



" Hang it," I exclaimed on entering, " it is 

 clear we cannot go up stairs, seeing there are 

 none, and the rooms above floorless ;" and as 

 there was nothing to be seen we proceeded to 

 the haunted regions below to look for the talked- 

 of cellar. 



After searching for some time, we came to an 

 old, rusty, padlocked door, and instinct told us 

 this was the looked-for place. The lock was 

 forced secundem artem, and we discovered a 

 very large place with many thousand bottles 

 in it. Some of the bins had broken down 



