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CHAPTER V--HOW THEY WENT TO LULSTEAD COVE
10/18

'Do you remember my taking you there the first night you came ?' 'Yes, of course,' said Stockdale.

'No wonder you had permission to broach the tubs--they were his, I suppose ?' 'No, they were not--they were mine; I had permission from myself.

The day after that they went several miles inland in a waggon-load of manure, and sold very well.' At this moment the group of men who had made off to the left some time before began leaping one by one from the hedge opposite Lizzy's house, and the first man, who had no tubs upon his shoulders, came forward.
'Mrs.Newberry, isn't it ?' he said hastily.
'Yes, Jim,' said she.

'What's the matter ?' 'I find that we can't put any in Badger's Clump to-night, Lizzy,' said Owlett.

'The place is watched.


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