I'll Bite, If You Hit Me! Illustration by Harry Furniss for the short story The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain by Dickens

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I'll Bite, If You Hit Me! "Used, already, to be worried and hunted like a beast, the boy crouched down, and looked back again, and interposed his arm to ward off the expected blow." Illustration by Harry Furniss for the short story The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain from The Christmas Books by Charles Dickens, published in The Testimonial Edition of 1910.

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