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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXV
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'Come along, and don't keep them waiting any longer.

They are all in the passage.

This was your fault, Master Charley.' 'O no, it was not,' said Katie; 'but we thought----' 'Never mind thinking,' said Gertrude, 'but come along.' And so they hurried on, and were soon replaced in their respective vehicles, and then went back to town.
'Well, I do think the Chiswick Gardens is the nicest place in all the world,' said Katie, leaning back in the cab, and meditating on her past enjoyment.
'They are very pretty--very,' said Lactimel Neverbend.

'I only wish every cottar had such a garden behind his cottage.

I am sure we might manage it, if we set about it in the right way.' 'What! as big as Chiswick ?' said Katie.
'No; not so big,' said Lactimel; 'but quite as nicely kept.' 'I think the pigs would get in,' said Katie.
'It would be much easier, and more important too, to keep their minds nicely,' said Ugolina; and there the pigs could never get in.' 'No; I suppose not,' said Katie.
'I don't know that,' said Lactimel..


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