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Friarswood Post-Office, by Charlotte M. Yonge
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Title: Friarswood Post-Office
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Release Date: December 29, 2007 [eBook #4296]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRIARSWOOD POST-OFFICE***
Transcribed from the 1909 Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
FRIARSWOOD POST-OFFICE
BY C. M. YONGE, AUTHOR OF "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE"
WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. G. WALKER SCULPTOR
LONDON: WELLS GARDNER, DARTON, & CO., LTD. 3 & 4 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C. AND 44 VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.
CHAPTER I--THE
STRANGE LAD
'Goodness! If ever I did see such a pig!' said Ellen King, as she mounted the stairs. 'I wouldn't touch him with a pair of tongs!'
'Who?' said a voice from the bedroom.
'Why, that tramper who has just been in to buy a loaf! He is a perfect pig, I declare! I only wonder you did not find of him up here! The police ought to hinder such folk from coming into decent people's shops! There, you may see him now!'
'Is that he upon the bridge--that chap about the size of our Harold?'
'Yes. Did you ever see such a figur