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The Adventures of Harry Revel

CHAPTER III
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What's worse, you're an unconverted one.

Oh, you nasty, fat, plain-featured fellow! Go indoors and wash yourself, this instant!" I spent close upon four years with this couple: and good parents they were to me, as well as devoted to each other.

Mrs.Trapp may have been "cracked," as she certainly suffered from a determination of words to the mouth: but, as a child will, I took her and the rest of the world as I found them.

She began to mother me at once; and on the very next morning took my clothes in hand, snipped the ridiculous tails off the jacket, and sent it, with the breeches, to the dyer's.
The yellow waistcoat she cut into pin-cushions, two for upstairs and two for the parlour.
Having no children to save for, Mr.Trapp could afford to feed and clothe an apprentice and take life easily to boot.

Mrs.Trapp would never allow him to climb a ladder; had even chained him to _terra firma_ by a vow--since, as she explained to me once, "he's an unconverted man.


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