A CHILD OF THE JAGO
dinner, or tripe, or what you fancied; saveloys, baked potatoes from the can on cold nights, a little cart to wheel Looey in, a boat from a toy-shop with sails.
"There's no end o' things to be found, all over the place, an' a sharp boy like you can find 'em every day. If you don't find 'em, someone else will; there's plenty on 'em about, on the look-out, an' you got jist as much right as them. On'y mind!"—Mr. Weech was suddenly stern and serious, and his forefinger was raised impressively—"You know you can't do anythink without I know, an' if you say a word—if you say a word," his fist came on the table with a bang, "somethink 'll 'appen to you, somethink bad."
Mr. Weech rose, and was pleasant again though businesslike. "Now you just go an' find somethink," he said. "Look sharp about it, an' don't go an' git in trouble. The cawfy's a penny an' the cake's a penny—ought prop'ly to be two-
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