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The Treasure of Heaven

CHAPTER VI
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"Kings aint my notion of 'appiness nor 'onesty neither.

They does things often for which some o' the poor 'ud be put in quod, an' no mercy showed 'em, an' yet 'cos they're kings they gits off.

An' I aint great on millionaires neither.
They'se mis'able ricketty coves, all gone to pot in their in'ards through grubbin' money an' eatin' of it like, till ivery other kind o' food chokes 'em.

There's a chymist in London what pays me five shillings an ounce for a little green yerb I knows on, cos' it's the on'y med'cine as keeps a millionaire customer of 'is a-goin'.

I finds the yerb, an' the chymist gits the credit.


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