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In the Year of Jubilee

CHAPTER 8
11/17

A fair turn-up with the gloves.

Do you suppose I licked him?
Not I; though I could have done it with one hand.

I just let him knock me out of time, and two minutes after he put all his business into my hands.' 'Oh, you'll get rich,' declared Nancy, laughing.

'No doubt about it.' 'There was a spot down the South Western Railway where we wanted to stick up a board, a great big board, as ugly as they make 'em.

It was in a man's garden; a certain particular place, where the trains slow, and folks have time to read the advertisement and meditate on it.


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