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marked on back and chest with one gigantic letter, so that altogether
they spelt out:
"PURKINJE'S DIGESTIVE PILLS."
An anæmic little woman in horrible coarse blue canvas pointed a little
girl to one of this string of hurrying advertisements.
"
"
"
Look!" said the anæmic woman: "there's yer father."
Which?" said the little girl.
'Im wiv his nose coloured red," said the anæmic woman.
The little girl began to cry, and Elizabeth could have cried too.
"Ain't 'e kickin' 'is legs!--just!" said the anæmic woman in blue,
trying to make things bright again. "Looky--now!"
On the façade to the right a huge intensely bright disc of weird
colour span incessantly, and letters of fire that came and went spelt
out--
"DOES THIS MAKE YOU GIDDY?"
Then a pause, followed by
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