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Rujub, the Juggler

CHAPTER IX
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I have asked the two boys to come in." "I shall have to become a permanent boarder at your establishment, Major.

It is really useless my keeping a cook when I am in here nearly half my time.

But I will come.

I am off for three days tomorrow.

A villager came in this morning to beg me to go out to rid them of a tiger that has established himself in their neighborhood, and that is an invitation I never refuse, if I can possibly manage to make time for it.
Fortunately everyone is so healthy here at present that I can be very well spared." At dinner the subject of juggling came up again, and the two subalterns expressed their opinion strongly that it was all humbug.
"Dr.Wade believes in it, Mr.Wilson," Isobel said.
"You don't say so, Doctor; I should have thought you were the last sort of man who would have believed in conjurers." "It requires a wise man to believe, Wilson," the Doctor said; "any fool can scoff; the wise man questions.


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