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favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to
by the English, who wanted leaders, and had
been of late much accustomed to usurpation and
conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia
and Northumbria——’ ”
“Ugh!” said the Lory, with a shiver.
“Il beg your pardon!” said the Mouse,
frowning, but very politely: “Did you speak ?”
“Not 1!” said the Lory hastily.
“1 thought you did, said the Mouse.—< I
— proceed. ‘Edwin and Morcar, the earls of
Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him;
and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of
2 3?
Canterbury, found it advisable
“Found what?” said the Duck.
“Found zt,” the Mouse replied rather crossly :
‘of course you know what ‘it’ means.”
“TI know what ‘it’ means well enough, when
I find a thing," said the Duck: “it’s generally
a Írog or a worm. The guestion is, what did
the archbishop find ?” |
The Mouse did not notice this question, but