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ing his smallest son that, if he would be a good boy 

 at school throughout the winter, he should be 

 allowed, as a particular treat on his next birthday, 



MR. GRISKIN THE BUTCHER 



to kill a lamb. Mr. Griskin made haste to enlarge 

 on the topic to Jim, and furthermore told him that 

 his eldest hope, who had been destined from infancy 

 to inherit his grandfather's drapery business, had 

 developed such a love of animals that they had 



