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o' money-making, now I think of it. But I wish 

 you'd a' talked it, now, instead o' reading: for 

 somehow the soft back of this chair o' yourn, and 

 that what was it piping-Didder oh, dear; 

 what a word that was ; it sent me right off wool- 

 gathering I knew it would! I just shut my eyes 

 to think it over a bit and I was off like a shot. 

 What is the use o' them long words they're just 

 for all the world like the Spanish onions han't 

 half as much flavor in 'em as little uns. That's 

 what comes o' traveling abroad, now! Blesh ye, 

 them Romans and Antidaluvians as you 'a' been 

 amongst, do n't know no more about farming than a 

 lot o' cockney tailors, for all their long words. Now 

 do, Sir, just try if you can't slice it up like, into 

 small words, so that a plain Englishman can under- 

 stand it " 



"And make it so plain that every one as he 



reads shall think h& knew it before. Well 

 come we'll talk it over in plain English after 

 luncheon." 



