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Maezli

CHAPTER II
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On the right is a wooden fence which we can easily climb.

From there we can run all the way up through the meadows to a thick hawthorn hedge; on the other side of that begin the bushes and behind that the woods with the old fir and pine trees, but we can't climb over it.

We could easily enough get to the castle from the woods." "You seem to have a very minute knowledge of the place," said the uncle.
"What does Mr.Trius say to the climbing of hedges?
In the meadows there are beautiful apple-trees as far as I remember." "He beats everybody he can catch," was Kurt's information, "even if they have no intention of taking the apples.

Whenever he sees anyone in the neighborhood of the hedge, he begins to strike out at them." "His intention is probably to show everybody who tries to nose around that the fences are not to be climbed.

Let us wait for your mother, who knows all the little ways.


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