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The Nether World

CHAPTER III
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Well, I went.

Didn't I, mother?
Didn't I go after that job?
I got there at half-past eight; an' what do you think I found?
If there was one man standin' at Gorbutt's door, _there was five hundred_! Don't you believe me?
You go an' ask them as lives about there.

If there was one, there was five hundred! Why, the p'lice had to come an' keep the road clear.

Fifteen bob What was the use o' me standin' there, outside the crowd?
What was the use, I say?
Such a lot o' poor starvin' devils you never saw brought together in all your life.

There they was, lookin' ready to fight with one another for the fifteen bob a week.


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