Chapter 35
PULL HIS TAIL. About noon, when both the doctors happened to be out, Joan came to see him, and was more like her former self than she had been for many days. Hardly was she seated when he took the stick, and said, "Did you ever see that before, Joan?" "Do you remember showing me a horse just like that one, only larger?" she returned. "It was in the drawing-room." "Quite well," he answered. "It made me think of this," she continued, "which I had often seen in that same closet where I suppose you found it yesterday." Cosmo unscrewed the joints and showed her the different boxes. "There's nothing in them," he said; "but I suspect there is something about this stick more than we can tell. Do you remember the silly Scotch rime I repeated the other day, when you told me I had been talking
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