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I had been standing by the door watching him all the time; and now he

just turned his head and looked at me over his shoulder as he rose and

took a little old battered tin plate fro it a rub on the tail of his jacket

"Like hedgehog?" he said griust

"You ain't tasted it," he said, groonderfully conversational as he

took a hand-bill fro down before the fire, he gave the hard clay ball a sharp

bloith the hand-bill,the little ani hot and evidently done, the bristly

skin adhering to the clay shell that had just been broken, so that there

was no difficulty in turning it out upon the tin plate, the shell in two

halves being cast upon the fire, where the interior began to burn

It seeht in opposite directions in the followingassailed by a very savoury odour, for the cookery

sood

"You won't have none--will you?" said Shock, without looking at ht as well eat

rats"

"I like rats," he replied, coolly taking out his knife from one pocket,

a piece of bread fro, throwing the bones on the fire as he picked the the tin plate over with a bit of old gardener's apron which

he took from the wall

"Well," I said sarcastically, "was it nice?"

"Bewfle!" he said, giving his lips a s