` I -- I only thought , ' he stammered ; ` I 've got a book called The Gorilla Hunters -- it 's a continuation of Coral Island , sir -- and it says there that the gorillas -LRB- they 're big monkeys , you know -RRB- were always chewing iron up . ' ` Not always , ' said Una . ` Only twice . ' They had been reading The Gorilla Hunters in the orchard . ` Well , anyhow , they always drummed on their chests , like Sir Richard 's did , before they went for people . And they built houses in trees , too . ' ` Ha ! ' Sir Richard opened his eyes . ` Houses like flat nests did our Devils make , where their imps lay and looked at us . I did not see them -LRB- I was sick after the fight -RRB- , but Witta told me , and , lo , ye know it also ? Wonderful ! Were our Devils only nest-building apes ? Is there no sorcery left in the world ? ' ' I do n't know , ' answered Dan , uncomfortably . ` I 've seen a man take rabbits out of a hat , and he told us we could see how he did it , if we watched hard . And we did . ' ` But we did n't , ' said Una , sighing . ` Oh ! there 's Puck ! ' The little fellow , brown and smiling , peered between two stems of an ash , nodded , and slid down the bank into the cool beside them .
` No sorcery , Sir XXXXX ? '
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