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bread, have now got my four meals a day; I used to wear
a dirty smock-frock full of holes, and breeches full of patches,
and now I am dressed like a prince; I don’t suffer from the
cold, and instead of sleeping in the open air, I have an ex-
cellent bed to lie in, in which I dream of gingerbread and
alicompane.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daddy Sharpphiz leant his chin on his right hand, and
looked full in the boy’s face, as he replied; “ And suppose,
now, you were obliged to go back to the vagabond life I took

ou from.”

“T think I should die of grief, if I was.”

«“ And you would do any thing to keep your present
situation ?”

“I would do any thing.”

“ Any thing, without exception?”

“ Without, exception.”

“Well, this is what I command you to do. Mowmouth
follows you every where; to-morrow you shall entice him
into the garden, at nightfall; you shall put him into a bag
which I have made for the purpose, you shall pull up the
strings of the bag

“And then?” said Nicholas, beginning to stare.

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