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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER VII
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I called to her.

'You're like a cow,' and she showed her teeth, bidding me not say that.
'A cow! a cow!' I repeated, in my superior pleasure.
She spun out in a breath, 'If you say that, I 'll run away with every bit of your clothes, and you'll come out and run about naked, you will.' 'Now I float,' was my answer, 'now I dive'; and when I came up she welcomed me with a big bright grin.
A smart run in the heat dried me.

I dressed, finding half my money on the grass.

She asked me to give her one of those bits-a shilling.

I gave her two, upon which she asked me, invitingly, if ever I tossed.


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