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Three Men in a Boat

CHAPTER V
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No cab came by, but the street boys did, and got interested in the show, apparently, and stopped.
Biggs's boy was the first to come round.

Biggs is our greengrocer, and his chief talent lies in securing the services of the most abandoned and unprincipled errand-boys that civilisation has as yet produced.

If anything more than usually villainous in the boy-line crops up in our neighbourhood, we know that it is Biggs's latest.

I was told that, at the time of the Great Coram Street murder, it was promptly concluded by our street that Biggs's boy (for that period) was at the bottom of it, and had he not been able, in reply to the severe cross-examination to which he was subjected by No.

19, when he called there for orders the morning after the crime (assisted by No.


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