A closer scrutiny, however, satisfied me that it was
intended for a kid."
"Ha! ha!" said I, "to be sure I have no right to laugh at you --a
million and a half of money is too serious a matter for mirth --but
you are not about to establish a third link in your chain --you will
not find any especial connexion between your pirates and goat
--pirates, you know, have nothing to do with goats; they appertain
to the farming interest."
"But I have just said that the figure was not that of a goat."
"Well, a kid then --pretty much the same thing."
"Pretty much, but not altogether," said Legrand. "You may have heard
of one Captain Kidd. I at once looked on the figure of the animal as a
kind of punning or hieroglyphical signature. I say signature;
because its position on the vellum suggested this idea. The
death's-head at the corner diagonally opposite, had, in the same
manner, the air of a stamp, or seal. But I was sorely put out by the
absence of all else --of the body to my imagined instrument --of the
text for my context.
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