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The Phoenix and the Carpet

CHAPTER 1
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But I expect it was only an odd one.

I tell you the carpet's good through and through.

It hadn't got no moths when it left my 'ands--not so much as an hegg.' 'But that's just it,' interrupted Jane; 'there WAS so much as an egg.' The man made a sort of rush at the children and stamped his foot.
'Clear out, I say!' he shouted, 'or I'll call for the police.

A nice thing for customers to 'ear you a-coming 'ere a-charging me with finding things in goods what I sells.

'Ere, be off, afore I sends you off with a flea in your ears.


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