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The Missing Link

CHAPTER I
10/18

"No family should be without it.

Two shillings, if you please." The woman took a bottle, and when leaving, Nickie the Kid turned and said, "I shall be back this way in a week, and shall do myself the honour of calling on you for a testimonial, if I may ?" At the next farm-house Nickie had a man to deal with.

The man began by wanting to throw Dr.Crips over the fence, and ended by buying a bottle of his Infallible Hair Restorer, and paying him half-a-crown for professional advice in the case of a brown cow afflicted with mumps.
Nickie the Kid had put in the busiest day of his varied career, and here he rested from his labours.

With six and six in his pocket he could afford luxuries.

That night he slept in a bed at the Harrow Hotel, and next morning breakfasted on grilled bacon and boiled eggs.


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