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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...in Wrapping, and for the fust day or two, wot with aving plenty o money to spend and nothing to do, they was like three brothers. Then, in a little, oldfashioned public-ouse down Poplar way, one night they fell out over a little joke Ginger played on Sam. "It was the fust drink that evening, and Sam ad just ordered a pot o beer and three glasses, when Ginger winked at the landlord and offered to bet Sam a level arf-dollar that e wouldnt drink off that pot o beer without taking breath. The landlord held the money, and old Sam, with a appy smile on is face, ad just taken up the mug, when he noticed the odd way in which they was all watching him. Twice he took the mug up and put it down agin without starting and asked em wot the little game was, but they ony laughed. He took it up the third time and started, and he ad just got about arf-way through when Ginger turns to the landlord and ses--"Did you catch it in the mouse-trap, he ses, or did it die of poison? "Pore Sam started as though he ad been shot, and, arter getting rid of the beer in is mouth, stood there olding the mug away from im and making such orrible faces that they was amost frightened. "Wots the matter with him? Ive never seen im carry on like that over a drop of beer before, ses Ginger, staring. "Heusually likes it, ses Peter Russet. "Not with a dead mouse in it, ses Sam, trembling with passion. "Mouse? ses Ginger, innercent-like. Mouse? Why, I didnt say it was in your beer, Sam. Wotever put that into your ead? "And made you lose your bet, ses Peter. "Then old Sam see ow hed been done, and the way he carried on when the landlord gave Ginger the arf-dollar, and said it was won fair and honest, was a disgrace. He opped about that...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217047883 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217047882 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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