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Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces

CHAPTER I
7/17

So would you if you 'ad a fing inside you tearin' and tearin' like I 'ave.

Aren't et a bloomin' crumb since the day before yusterday at four in the mawnin' when a gent in an 'ansom--drunk as a lord, he was--treated me and a parcel of others to a bun and a cup of corfy at a corfy stall over 'Ighgate way.

Stood out agin bein' a crook as long as ever I could--as long as ever I'm goin' to, I reckon, now _you've_ got your maulers on me.

I'll be on the list after this.

The cops 'ull know me; and when you've got the nime--well, wot's the odds?
You might as well 'ave the gime as well, and git over goin' empty.


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