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`` I know that far , though I ne'er minced ape nor gallows-bird . '' After waiting a good hour he felt desperately hungry ; so he turned , and in self-defence went to sleep again . Poor fellow , in his hard life he had been often driven to this manoeuvre . At high noon he was waked by Gerard moving , and found him sitting up with the straw smoking round him like a dung-hill . Animal heat versus moisture . Gerard called him `` a lazy loon . '' He quietly grinned .