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“Oughtn’t you be in school anyhow?” asked Bravey, bending precisely in half at the waist to stare Charlotte down His big oak nose butted up against her small, pointed one
Emily shuddered Charlotte did not
“Toto hell with School,” E experience of hearing all her siblings gasp
“Now, that’s what I like to hear!” crowed Crashey “I like a girl with a little swear in her Barely gradtriculated stickth forot the save a staircase But I fooled the out me ears, nose, and throat, I have Pluslike, I can shoot true as the day you were born and ht arm could hold back the ocean so’s any one of you ladies could walk right through the world as dry as you please” He flexed his burly muscles, in case they doubted him
Branwell resolved iain He squeezed his own skinny arm and hoped no one saw him do it
“?’S’not abetween your ears but squirrels”
“S out his ear with one stubby finger “Genius squirrels! Nothing but the best!”
Bravey clapped his comrade’s shoulders heartily “Now, littlein your hands, I’et Brunty here back hos” Bravey patted the enorazine Man
“Where does he belong?” asked Branwell breathlessly
Bravey winked one wooden eye “In prison, of course! The P-House! The clink! Quite a naughty little pupper, is our Brunty”
“And where does the Express go?” said Eht, afraid of the answer and longing for it
Crashey threw his brawny arrandest town frolorious country ever invented, ho, favorite haunt of the lawless and the beautiful, the wild glass jungle, the crystal frontier! Where else would anyone want to go? Tickets, please! Tickets or NOTHING! Tickets or TOTAL DESPAIR! Tickets or BUST!”
Charlotte cleared her throat, and asked, in her most sensible voice, which she had copied from Aunt Elizabeth on her most sensible day: “How much does a ticket cost, sir?”
This brought Crashey and Bravey up short They whispered to each other behind knotty pine hands, eyeballing the children through their huge fingers
“Amillion pounds?” offered Crashey uncertainly “Each!” he blurted Then, feeling a bitoutsized birch-bark teeth