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The People of the Abyss

CHAPTER XI--THE PEG
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"Get outa that, you bloomin' swine! Eigh! eigh! Get out now!" And like swine he drove them from the doorways and scattered them to the four winds of Surrey.

But when he encountered the crowd asleep on the steps he was astounded.

"Shocking!" he exclaimed.
"Shocking! And of a Sunday morning! A pretty sight! Eigh! eigh! Get outa that, you bleeding nuisances!" Of course it was a shocking sight, I was shocked myself.

And I should not care to have my own daughter pollute her eyes with such a sight, or come within half a mile of it; but--and there we were, and there you are, and "but" is all that can be said.
The policeman passed on, and back we clustered, like flies around a honey jar.

For was there not that wonderful thing, a breakfast, awaiting us?
We could not have clustered more persistently and desperately had they been giving away million-dollar bank-notes.


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