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PLEASU RE <45
£iw e ” I mean everybody and everything,
could only be left alone, pleasure would
be------’
Unluckily at that moment a beautiful
speckle-breasted Thrush, that for the last
few seconds, with his pretty head on one
side, had been eyeing the plump and
self-satisfied Earthworm, now yielded to
temptation, and by swallowing him at one
gulp put an end to what Fairbrass thought
was going to be a most instructive discourse
on ‘ pleasure/
* Oho, oho, oho 1 Now I call that
really funny — if we could only be left
alone I As if anything could be left alone
in this world ! Ohor oho, oho !— that was
splendid ! ’
Fairbrass disliked the strident laugh and
satirical tones of this interrupter, and was
amazed to find that they were uttered by a
Hedgehog who, uncurled and unabashed,
was strutting down the deserted garden path.
Pax pricked up his ears at the sight of
him, and gave an ominous growl.
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