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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 11
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I hope you won't mind drinking out of our glass.

We can't wash it, you know--unless we rinse it out with a little ginger-beer.' 'Don't ye do it, miss,' he said eagerly; 'never waste good liquor on washing.' The glass was beside us on the wall.

Oswald filled it with ginger-beer and handed down the foaming tankard to the tramp.

He had to lie on his young stomach to do this.
The tramp was really quite polite--one of Nature's gentlemen, and a man as well, we found out afterwards.

He said-- 'Here's to you!' before he drank.


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