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“Ee-auh-auh-oh,is it ?”gasped Puzzle.
“Now I wonder... I wonder... I wonder,”said Shift to himself, for he was thinking very hard.
“I wonder who killed the poor lion,”said Puzzle presently.“It ought to be buried. We must have a funeral.”
“Oh,it wasn’t a Talking Lion,”said Shift.“You needn’t bother about that. There are no Talking Beasts up beyond the Falls,up in the Western Wild. This skin must have belonged to a dumb,wild lion.”
This,by the way,was true. A Hunter,a Man,had killed and skinned this lion somewhere up in the Western Wild several months before. But that doesn’t come into this story.
“All the same,Shift,”said Puzzle,“even if the skin only belonged to a dumb,wild lion,oughtn’t we to give it a decent burial ? I mean,aren’t all lions rather-well,rather solemn ? Because of you know Who. Don’t you see ?”
“Don’t you start getting ideas into your head,Puzzle,”said Shift.“Because,you know,thinking isn’t your strong point. We’ll make this skin into a fine warm winter coat for you.”
“Oh,I don’t think I’d like that,”said the Donkey.“It would look-I mean,the other Beasts might think-that is to say,I shouldn’t feel-”
“What are you talking about ?”said Shift,scratching himself the wrong way up as Apes do.