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He climbed up the tower before you did.' 'No, I don't know,'

replied the boy, 'but someone was standing by the sounding hole

on the other side of the steps, and as he would neither give an

answer nor go away, I took him for a scoundrel, and threw him

downstairs. Just go there and you will see if it was he. I should

be sorry if it were.' The woman ran away and found her husband,

who was lying moaning in the corner, and had broken his leg.