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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER III
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But they pay well, the breakages do." "Well, I won't keep you now," said Gammon.

"I'm going to have a peep at the bow-wows.

Could I look in after closing ?" Mrs.Clover turned her head away, pretending to observe the muscular youth within.
"Fact is," he pursued, "I want to speak to you about Polly." "What about her ?" "Nothing much.

I'll tell you this evening." Without more words he nodded and went off.

Mrs.Clover stood for a moment with an absent expression on her comely face, then turned into the shop and gave the young man in shirt-sleeves a bit of her mind about the time he was taking over his work.
She was anything but a bad-tempered woman.


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