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176 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
ing up a crooked stick he bent it and crumpled
it from end to end.
Of course the Crane understood all this illtemper
and insincerity, but he did not say a
word. He meekly stretched his neck until his
head touched the opposite bank, and the Badger
sprang upon this bridge the Crane had made.
But when he was out in the stream, where it
was deepest and most dangerous, the Crane
shook himself, and in a moment the Badger was
whirling round and round in the water like a
chip of wood. In a moment more he was dashed
against a rock, and then he was thrown high
and dry upon the shore, quite dead except for
his magical backbone, which only waited to be
spoken to, when it would have the power
its body to life again.
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