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THE BOOKSHOP
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Robin clutching his hair. He did not want to look at her again . . . he had so wonderful a picture!

And as he left Robin in the heart of his family he heard him say—

Such a lion, Mother, a lady's got—with a man on it—a 'normous lion, and the man hasn't any clothes on, and his legs are all scratched. . . .