← He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died. 🔊
← "Up there, comrades," he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak−"up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see−there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!" 🔊
← Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were dead. Jones too was dead−he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country. 🔊