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It was a long time before the Professor spoke. He took three or four pinches of fluff from the bag and examined them in turn with meticulous care. Then he separated from the mass, with the aid of a camel's-hair brush a dozen or so short spines which he arranged on a clean sheet of paper.
-"Quite correct," he said. "As a matter of fact, the sample is full of hairs. Some of them short, some of them long, the long ones grey, and the short ones a deepish brown."