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Sketches, Dispatches, Hull Tales and Ballads - University of Hull

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‘Will you shut up at last,’ came another. ‘It is enough that I’ve been<br />

hearing it all the way from village. You get <strong>of</strong>f with you for once.<br />

Come back on Thursday <strong>and</strong> till then keep away from Lass.’<br />

‘But Bog, she—’<br />

‘What did I say?’<br />

‘—’<br />

‘What’s that?’<br />

‘Bog.’<br />

Now it was dark inside his clock. Adam had been laid keyholedown<br />

on someone’s bit <strong>of</strong> grass. Two sets <strong>of</strong> footsteps went away,<br />

then slowly one set came deliberately back. Something started to<br />

drag him, in slow heaves, away from the pony <strong>and</strong> towards<br />

another place.

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