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We and the World, Part I

CHAPTER IX
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The sweet-shop takes them.

They only give you eleven penny notes for a shilling in the bank, or else it would burst.

At dinner we have a lot of pudding to begin with, and it's very heavy.

You can hardly eat anything afterwards.

The first day Lorraine said quite out loud and very polite, 'Did you say _duff before meat_, young gentlemen ?' and I couldn't help laughing, and old Snuffy beat his head horridly with his dirty fists.
But Lorraine minds nothing; he says he knows old Snuffy will kill him some day, but he says he doesn't want to live, for his father and mother are dead; he only wants to catch old Snuffy in three more booby-traps before he dies.


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