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Tom Hurstbourne or A Squatter's Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

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TEN o'clock, the time appointed for Spicer to meet Wilson, saw both Spicer and Mason in the office of Wilson. ‘Momin’ sir. 'Scuse me takin’ the libbaty, but he's a friend 0' mine, sir, that knows wot's agoin' on,’ ejaculated Spicer in answer to an enquiring look of Wilson's. ‘He's safe as a bank and mum's the word. Puffiickly fly to the bisness, an’ ‘ull deal with yer in my sted, which Jack Mason 'is name his, as rummy a card as hever got free passidge to Bot'ny Bay.’

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