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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 355
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Text but 'e wouldn't take it on because it was too ugly!'

`If it 'ad bin me, I should 'ave shut me bl--y eyes,' cried Sawkins. `I wouldn't pass it for a trifle like that.'

`No,' said Crass amid laughter, `and you can bet your life 'e didn't lose it neither, although 'e tries to make 'imself out to be so innocent.'

`I always though old Harlow was a bl--y liar,' remarked Bundy, `but now we knows 'e is.'

Although everyone pretended to disbelieve him, Harlow stuck to his version of the story.

`It's not their face you want, you know,' added Bundy as he helped himself to some more tea.

`I know it wasn't my old
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