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A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.

Presently Ruby Gillis started up to take a sum to the master; she fell back into her seat with a little shriek, believing that her hair was pulled out by the roots.

Thus seven or eight hundred piastres were wanting to them both to make up the sum that Albert required.

“Apply to the steward on the first day of every month, and you will receive the same sum.”