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The Man Who Laughs

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They encamped at haphazard on a common, in the glade of a wood, on the waste patch of grass where roads intersect, at the outskirts of villages, at the gates of towns, in market-places, in public walks, on the borders of parks, before the entrances of churches.
When the cart drew up on a fair green, when the gossips ran up open-mouthed and the curious made a circle round the pair, Ursus harangued and Homo approved.

Homo, with a bowl in his mouth, politely made a collection among the audience.

They gained their livelihood.

The wolf was lettered, likewise the man.

The wolf had been trained by the man, or had trained himself unassisted, to divers wolfish arts, which swelled the receipts.


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