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There was a report that the Seneschal had raised that rabbit in

the house and slyly let it out into the garden, in order to make

the huntsmen friends by means of too easy a prey. The old man

played his trick so mysteriously that he completely fooled all

Soplicowo. A scullion, some years later, whispered a word of

this, wishing to embroil once more the Assessor and the Notary;

but in vain did he spread abroad reports slanderous to the

hounds-the Seneschal denied the story, and nobody believed the

scullion.