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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 5
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The 'Rose and Crown' dinner was half of it wasted because the anglers were so furious that a lot of them took the next train to town.

And this is the worst of all--a barge, that was on the mud in the pen below, was lifted and jammed across the river and the water tilted her over, and her cargo is on the river bottom.

It was coals.' During this speech there were four of us who knew not where to turn our agitated glances.

Some of us tried bread-and-butter, but it seemed dry and difficult, and those who tried tea choked and spluttered and were sorry they had not let it alone.

When the speech stopped Alice said, 'It was us.' And with deepest feelings she and the rest of us told all about it.
Oswald did not say much.


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