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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

CHAPTER THE SECOND
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He returned only at the insistent call of hunger, to bear with stoical calm an amount of violent scolding that was more in proportion to his size than anything else that had ever before fallen to his lot in the Happy Village.
III.
Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase.

She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.

He was clearing away the breakfast things, and she was staring out of the tall window on the terrace where the fawns would come to be fed.

"Jobbet," she said, in her most imperial voice--"Jobbet, this Thing must work for its living." And she made it quite clear not only to Jobbet (which was easy), but to every one else in the village, including young Caddles, that in this matter, as in all things, she meant what she said.
"Keep him employed," said Lady Wondershoot.

"That's the tip for Master Caddles." "It's the Tip, I fancy, for all Humanity," said the Vicar.


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