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I thuppothe they've all gone in now anyhow," said Skinner.
What--the 'ens?"
I wath thinking of the waptheth more particularly," said Skinner.
And then, with, an air of circumspection that would have awakened
suspicion in a week-old baby, and laying the accent heavily on most of
the words he chose, he asked, "I thuppothe nobody 'athn't 'eard of
any other big thingth, about, 'ave they? Big dogth or catth or
anything of that thort? Theemth to me if thereth big henth and big
waptheth comin' on--"
He laughed with a fine pretence of talking idly.
But a brooding expression came upon the faces of the Hickleybrow men.
Fulcher was the first to give their condensing thought the concrete
shape of words.
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A cat to match them 'ens--" said Fulcher.
Ay!" said Witherspoon, "a cat to match they 'ens."
'Twould be a tiger," said Fulcher.
More'n a tiger," said Witherspoon....
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