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Tho as to thee they grow properly.
What oh ... eh? Every blethed 'en--every blethed day." And Mr.Skinner put up his hand to laugh behind it in a refined and contagious manner, and humped his shoulders very much--and only the other eye of him failed to participate in his laughter.
Then doubting if the carpenter had quite got the point of it, he repeated in a penetrating whisper; "_Meathured_!" "'E's worse than our old guvnor; I'm dratted if 'e ain't," said the carpenter from Hickleybrow. II. Experimental work is the most tedious thing in the world (unless it be the reports of it in the _Philosophical Transactions_), and it seemed a long time to Mr.Bensington before his first dream of enormous possibilities was replaced by a crumb of realisation.
He had taken the Experimental Farm in October, and it was May before the first inklings of success began.
Herakleophorbia I.and II.
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