The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 433
un-speakable joy, I per-ceived the lion had, by the eagerness with whichhe sprung at me, jumped forward, as I fell, intothe crocodiles mouth ! which, as before observed,was wide open ; the head of the one stuck in thethroat of the other ! and they were struggling toextricate themselves! I… … TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. 395 head farther into the throat of the crocodile, anddestroyed him by suffocation, for he could neithergorge nor eject it. Soon after I had thus gained a complete victoryover my two powerful adversaries my companionarrived in search of me; for finding I did not fol-low…
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