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chirruping noise, by striking his cheeks with the stumps of 

 his hands. 



A dwarf also, one Zofu, with backbone broken, comes 

 about us : he talks with an air of authority, and is present 

 at all public occurrences : the people seem to bear with 

 him. He is a stranger from a tribe in the north, and works 

 in his garden very briskly : his height is 3 feet 9 inches. 



