The Cobbler and His Wife
and all the other birds pounced on him and tore him piecemeal."
Mrs. Handsomebody, with a ferocious gleam in her eye, leaned forward to catch the rest. The Seraph's voice was low and insinuating.
"I was finking"—with a chuckle—"that you might poison one of the nicest of the stuffed birds. Then you might get in the glass case wiv the others. We could lock the door on the outside and watch through the glass."
"And I expect you think they would tear me piecemeal? Is that the idea?"
"Oh, I don't know," chuckled The Seraph. "But suppose you twy it."
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