The Demi-gods

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he was lying flat rubbing his jowl against these same clumps. He stood up suddenly, shook himself, swung up his tail and his chin, bared his teeth, fixed his eye on eternity, and roared "h

as understood by him as a caress, and he willingly suffered it-"hee-haw," said he again

looked as wise and as kindly as the eldest of the three angels; indeed, although he had never been groomed, he looked handsome also, for he had the sha

toilet than that practicable; they ran their hands through their abundant hair, and th

inging; fifty of them, and all of the same kind, came dashing madly together, and they all sang th

hased each other; they squealed as they dropped twenty sheer feet towards the ground, and squealed again as they recovered on a swoop, and as they climbed an hundred f

his feathers to see was his complexion good; he parted the plumage of his tail modishly; he polished his feet with his bill, and then polished his bill on his left thigh, and then he polished his left thigh with the back of his neck. "I'm a hell of a crow," said he, "and everybody admits it." He flew with admirable carelessness over the

murk or coldness in the air; it sparkled from every point like a vast jewel, and t

ble of miscellaneous rubbish was hanging half in and half out of it; a little farther the ass, in a concentrated manner, was chopping

ls observed the donkey

kind of veget

rs obser

tinued, "the time has

ck chin in his hand and his gesture and att

inly hungry

some of it into his mouth, but after a m

aid he musingly, "but I do no

angel made

k to the gi

ll moved o

ungry," and he beamed on her so contentedly that al

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he will be coming back in a minute or two, and he'll

aid the angel, "let us sit down a

ht to learn at once,"

osite the girl, and requested he

ed speakers do, that she did not know at what point to begin on her subject. Still, something had to be said,

others; potatoes and cabbage are very good to eat, and so is bacon; my father likes bacon when it

that the animal is eating?" sai

that's only grass; every kind of an

ot good

rass except they were dying of the hunger and couldn't help themselves, poor creatures! And there was a Jew once who was a king,

y for him to come, because he went away by the road), and I'm think