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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 6
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She took Dick's topper that he wears with his Etons, and a skirt of Mrs Pettigrew's.

Daisy, dressed the same as Alice, taking the muslin from Mrs Pettigrew's dressing-table with-out saying anything beforehand.

None of us would have advised this, and indeed we were thinking of trying to put it back, when Denny and Noel, who were wishing to look like highwaymen, with brown-paper top-boots and slouch hats and Turkish towel cloaks, suddenly stopped dressing and gazed out of the window.
'Krikey!' said Dick, 'come on, Oswald!' and he bounded like an antelope from the room.
Oswald and the rest followed, casting a hasty glance through the window.
Noel had got brown-paper boots too, and a Turkish towel cloak.

H.O.

had been waiting for Dora to dress him up for the other clown.


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