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The Slowcoach

CHAPTER 4
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Now, then, Bobbie, item four ?" "Maps," said Bobbie.
"Right," said Mr.Lenox.

"I wish I was coming with you." "Do," they all cried.
"I can't," said Mr.Lenox.

"If I were to go away before September, I should get the sack, and then I should starve.

His Lordship is sufficiently cross with me now, because I had to give him out leg-before at the annual estate match last Saturday, when I was umpiring.

He couldn't stand anything else." That night Mrs.Avory, Uncle Christopher, Mr.Scott, and Mr.Lenox were talking after dinner.
"It's a very wonderful present," said Mrs.Avory; "but there are two things about it that are not quite satisfactory.


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