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"I won't take any notice of the ill-bred young cubs," I said to ed the pot in its place and went back

for another, hack! came another well-aimed piece, and hit me on

the side of the cap

"You--"

I stopped e--stopped words and

act, for I was going to run towards the spot whence the clay seemed to

have come

"It's only play after all," I said toannoyed by such a trifle as that"

Iwhizzed by my ear, and then I

was hit on the shoulder by a little raw potato

I wanted to run round to the back of the hornbeae, which had been

planted to shelter plants and not sharpshooters, but I restrained

ood aiht to ain; and I worked hard to finishthe pots down to

the grass here I was; and I had got to the last pot, when, in

stooping to put it in its place, plop caan to slip under my collar