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'Dead, sir? Was not I there to doctor him? '
'And what did you do to him then?'
'I cut off the foot properly at the joint with a pruning knife. I then sewed the skin neatly over it, and now
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you would never know it was off! Look there, the rascal has smelt you and is coming to meet you.'
And at that moment Pritchard appeared, coming at full gallop, so that, as Michel had said, one would hardly have noticed that he had only three feet. My meeting with Pritchard was, as may be supposed, full of deep
