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thought it best to make a butcher of him. The 

 result so far had been successful beyond his 

 expectations. I tried to console Jim by telling 

 him that I had once seen a similar story labelled 

 as a joke in the pages of Punch, but he did not 

 recover his spirits the whole evening. 



"WE ALWAYS LOOKS AFTER THE SEX " 



For my part I was so glad to get home again 

 that not even turquoise gates had power to dash 

 my happiness for more than a moment. Besides, 

 I had met with a cheering railway porter at Bristol, 

 where, after several hours of travelling, I had to 

 change trains, which I always find a depressing 

 incident in a journey. I was hurrying from one 



