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thus shot what he saw and killed
what he did not see. Then he went
into a church and lit a fire with the
pages of an old book so as to cook
the hare: old words. While he was
eating, a dog came into the church
and stole the hare from him. So the
man had to be content with the
unborn leverets: unborn flesh. Then
he drank holy water from a stoup:
water that was neither in the sky nor
on the earth.
The marquis was forced to release
him, and from that time onwards he
gave up riddles.

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