CHAPTER XIII
THE COBS' CREATURES
ABOUT this time, the gentlemen whom the king had left behind him
to
watch over the princess, had each occasion to doubt the testimony of
his
own eyes, for more than strange were the objects to which they would
bear witness. They were of one sort--creatures--but so grotesque and
misshapen as to be more like a child's drawings upon his slate than
anything natural. They saw them only at night, while on guard about
the
house. The testimony of the man who first reported having seen one of
them was that, as he was walking slowly round the house, while yet in
the shadow, he caught sight of a creature standing on its hind legs in
the moonlight, with its fore feet upon a window-ledge, staring in at the
window. Its body might have been that of a dog or wolf--he thought,
but
he declared on his honor that its head was twice the size it ought to
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