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Six times since the day of the Skinners there had been outbreaks of
giant rats--each time from the south-west London sewers, and now they
were as much an accepted fact there as tigers in the delta by
Calcutta....
The man's brother had bought a paper in a heedless sort of way at
Sandling, and at last this chanced to catch the eye of the released man.
He opened the unfamiliar sheets--they seemed to him to be smaller, more
numerous, and different in type from the papers of the times before--and
he found himself confronted with innumerable pictures about things so
strange as to be uninteresting, and with tall columns of printed matter
whose headings, for the most part, were as unmeaning as though they had
been written in a foreign tongue--"Great Speech by Mr. Caterham"; "The
Boomfood Laws."
"Who's this here Caterham?" he asked, in an attempt to make
conversation.
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He's all right," said his brother.
Ah! Sort of politician, eh?"
Goin' to turn out the Government. Jolly well time he did."
Ah!" He reflected. "I suppose all the lot I used to
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