Another:
"What does the Questing Beast look like?"
"Ah, we call it the Beast Glatisant, you know," replied the monarch, assuming a learned air and beginning to speak quite volubly. "Now the Beast Glatisant, or, as we say in English, the Questing Beast, you may call it either," he added graciously, "this Beast has the head of a serpent, ah, and the body of a lizard, the haunches of a lion, and he is footed like a hart. Wherever this beast goes he makes a noise in his belly as it had been the noise of thirty couple of hounds questing."
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