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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 3 

 them long words they 're just for all the world like 

 the Spanish onions, ha'n't half as much flavour in 

 'em as the little uns. That 's what comes o' travel- 

 ling abroad now ! Blesh ye, them Romans and An- 

 tidaluvians as you 'a' been amongst, don't know 110 

 more about farming than a lot o' cockney tailors, for 

 all their long words. Now do just try, Sir, if you 

 can't slice it up like, into small uns, so that a plain 

 man can understand it " 



" And make it so plain that every one as he 



reads shall think he knew it before. Well come 

 we '11 talk it over in plain English after luncheon." 



' It 's his first year at plough : he was ' kipping craows ' for the last 

 two or three.' 



