George Stubbs Lion Devouring a Horse

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at the fire distractedly with an iron bar.
“Oh, well, us had a big whirlwind on Hogswatch-
night and one of Mother Peason’s hens laid the same
egg three times, and old Poorchick’s cow gave birth to a
seven-headed snake, and there was a rain of frogs over in
Slice—“
“Been pretty “I should beat it up before it gets cold,” said Nanny Ogg.
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“Weren’t my fault. Mum! How could I stop ‘em?”
Nanny sat back in the chair, smiling happilynormal, then,” said Nanny Ogg. She refilled her pipe in a casual but meaningful way.“All very quiet, really,” said Jason. He pulled the bar out of the fire, laid it on the anvil, and raised his hammer.“I’ll find out sooner or later, you know,” said NannyOgg.Jason didn’t turn his head, but his hammer stopped in mid-air.“I always does, you know,” said Nanny Ogg.The iron cooled from the color of fresh straw to bright red.“You knows you always feels better for telling your old mum,” said Nanny Ogg.The iron cooled from red to spitting black. But Jason, ‘ used all day to the searing heat of a forge, seemed to be uncomfortably warm.