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While speaking, the surgeon raised the limbs in question to a nearly horizontal position, an attitude which really appeared to bid defiance to anything like a passage for himself through the defile; but the trooper, disregarding this ocular proof of the impossibility of the movement, cried hastily,-"Here was nothing to stop you, man; I could leap a platoon through, boot and thigh, without pricking with a single spur.
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