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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 10
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Let me think a minute.' Then he shut his pale pink eyelids a moment in thought, and then opened them and stood up on the straw and said very fast-- 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, or if not ears, pots.
You know Albert's uncle said they were going to open the barrow, to look for Roman remains to-morrow.

Don't you think it seems a pity they shouldn't find any ?' 'Perhaps they will,' Dora said.
But Oswald saw, and he said 'Primus! Go ahead, old man.' The Dentist went ahead.
'In The Daisy Chain,' he said, 'they dug in a Roman encampment and the children went first and put some pottery there they'd made themselves, and Harry's old medal of the Duke of Wellington.

The doctor helped them to some stuff to partly efface the inscription, and all the grown-ups were sold.

I thought we might-- 'You may break, you may shatter The vase if you will; But the scent of the Romans Will cling round it still.' Denny sat down amid applause.

It really was a great idea, at least for HIM.


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