| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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to be lit every day in nearly every room to make the house habitable by Christmas. `I wonder if it's true as the firm's got another job to do for old Sweater?' remarked Harlow as he was toasting a bloater on the end of the pointed stick. `True? No!' said the man on the pail scornfully. `It's all bogy. You know that empty 'ouse as they said Sweater 'ad bought - the one that Rushton and Nimrod was seen lookin' at?' `Yes,' replied Harlow. The other men listened with evident interest. `Well, they wasn't pricing it up after all! T he landlord of that 'ouse is abroad, and there was some plants in the garden as Rushton thought 'e'd like, and 'e was tellin' Misery which ones 'e wanted. And afterwards old Pontius Pilate came up with Ned Dawson and a truck. They made two or three journeys and took |
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