[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrownsmith’s Boy CHAPTER TWO 13/17
"Get out, Dick, or I'll tread on you!" this to one of the cats, who seemed to think because he was black and covered with black fur that he was a blacking-brush, and he was using himself accordingly all over his master's boots. "If you please, I want to go now," I said hurriedly. "To be sure you do," he said, still holding on to the end of my tie--"to be sure you do.
Hah! that's got him at last." I stared in return, for there had been a great deal of screwing about going on in that pocket, as if he could not get out his big fist, but it came out at last with a snatch. "Here, where are you ?" he said.
"Weskit? why, what a bit of a slit it is to call a pocket.
Hold the sixpence though, won't it ?" "If you please I'd rather pay for the flowers," I cried, flushing as he held on by the tie with one hand, and thrust the sixpence back in my pocket with the other. "Dessay you would," he replied; "but I told you before I'm market grower and dursen't take small sums.
Not according to Cocker.
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