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The Daisy Chain

CHAPTER XXI
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Great cry, little wool, you know." "Come with me," said Norman.

"I'll take care you are example enough.
What did you give for those articles ?" "Fifteen-pence halfpenny.

Rascally dear, isn't it?
but the old rogue makes one pay double for the risk! You are making his fortune, you have raised his prices fourfold." "I'll take care of that." "Why, where are you taking me?
Back to him ?" "I am going to gratify your wish to be an example." "A gibbet! a gibbet" cried Larkins.

"I'm to be turned off on the spot where the crime took place--a warning to all beholders.

Only let me send home for old Neptune's chain, if you please, sir--if you hang me in the combined watch-chains of the school, I fear they would give way and defeat the purposes of justice." They were by this time at the bridge.


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