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In the Year of Jubilee

CHAPTER 7
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He's the kind of chap I should like to get hold of, and have a bit of a talk with, and ask him what he thought about things in general.

It's been a big affair, hasn't it?
I know a chap who made a Jubilee Perfume, and he's netting something like a hundred pounds a day.' 'Have you any Jubilee speculation on hand ?' 'Don't ask me! It makes me mad.

I had a really big thing,--a Jubilee Drink,--a teetotal beverage; the kind of thing that would have sold itself, this weather.

A friend of mine hit on it, a clerk in a City warehouse, one of the cleverest chaps I ever knew.

It really was _the_ drink; I've never tasted anything like it.


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