Excerpt from In the Service of the Princess It was in Switzerland. Dick was returning from one of his long, solitary rambles, for his mother was an invalid and the boy knew no one in the place. Approaching the auberge from the rear he heard the hideous squawking which a fowl makes when seized with violence and for a sinister purpose. Boy like, Dick hastened to the scene of execution. A stolid Swiss gripped firmly the sacrifice to man's savage appetites; he forced the beak open, pushed the scissors under the tongue and cut ...
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Excerpt from In the Service of the Princess It was in Switzerland. Dick was returning from one of his long, solitary rambles, for his mother was an invalid and the boy knew no one in the place. Approaching the auberge from the rear he heard the hideous squawking which a fowl makes when seized with violence and for a sinister purpose. Boy like, Dick hastened to the scene of execution. A stolid Swiss gripped firmly the sacrifice to man's savage appetites; he forced the beak open, pushed the scissors under the tongue and cut, then looked at the boy and grinned. Dick, realising the stern necessities of the case, watched the death throes with the cool interest of a savage, or a boy, and was still watching when a slim figure in a grey riding habit came flying around the corner of the building and stumbled over the shuddering body of the chicken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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