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The Simpkins Plot

CHAPTER VI
18/23

In the first place, you'll not be able to get an artist who can draw the apple trees so that any ordinary man could recognise them.

I know what I'm talking about, for apple trees necessarily come a good deal into ecclesiastical art, the kind of art I'm most familiar with.

I give you my word that the most of them might as well be elms, and I've seen lots that look like Florence Court yews.

As a general rule, you wouldn't have a ghost of a notion what they were meant for if it wasn't for Eve and the serpent.

In the next place, I don't think the sergeant would care for it.


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