| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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with the object of replacing it on the cart, but Crass got hold of it as well and they had a tussle for it - a kind of tug of war - reeling and struggling all over the shop. cursing and swearing horribly all the time. Finally, Sawkins - being the better man of the two - succeeded in wrenching the bundle away and put it on the cart again, and then Crass hurriedly put on his coat and said he was going to the office to ask Mr Rushton if he might have the things. Upon hearing this, Sawkins became so infuriated that he lifted the bundle off the cart and, throwing it upon the muddy ground, right into a pool of dirty water, trampled it underfoot; and then, taking out his clasp knife, began savagely hacking and ripping the ticking so that the feathers all came falling out. In a few minutes he had damaged the things beyond hope of repair, |
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