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there

"Here, shet that there door, Polly," he said in a low harsh growl, like

the snarl of a wild beast Then to me: "Here, what d'yer mean a-comin' in here, eh?"

He accompanied his words with a fierce shake that ainst the wall

For a few e look seemed to fascinate me, and I

felt horribly alar but

the Ogre and Hop-o'- knife and threatenand breathless

with led with

a sensation as if they were going to double up under reat heavy-browed scoundrel gave me another

shake, and said:-"D'yer hear? What d'yer lanced at a sad-faced dull-eyed slatternly woman who had closed the

door, and then at the boy, who still crouched close up under the hioing on

with his sharp restless dark eyes; then,a determined attempt to

be braver than I looked, I said as stoutly as I could: "I want our new rope He stole our new rope"