. The book of months . ■ -Wii.^■■■■■■■ -^^ f^i ^lllit ^liite^^K. •^,;:^^ THE BOOK OF MONTHS Oxford Street, we should have murmured,quaveringly, A bad score on the Colonialside ; we should have put our pennies in theuntrustworthy pocket, whence they would haveslithered coldly down our legs onto the pave-ment. Grasping the inadequacy of this, weshould have held them in our other hand andimpeded the swift passage of the papers. Weshould have cast apprehensive glances at thepoliceman for fear he should tell us to move on—he tells the bloke to move, and thebloke says, Garn —we should have
. The book of months . ■ -Wii.^■■■■■■■ -^^ f^i ^lllit ^liite^^K. •^,;:^^ THE BOOK OF MONTHS Oxford Street, we should have murmured,quaveringly, A bad score on the Colonialside ; we should have put our pennies in theuntrustworthy pocket, whence they would haveslithered coldly down our legs onto the pave-ment. Grasping the inadequacy of this, weshould have held them in our other hand andimpeded the swift passage of the papers. Weshould have cast apprehensive glances at thepoliceman for fear he should tell us to move on—he tells the bloke to move, and thebloke says, Garn —we should have frownedat bus drivers who nearly ran over us, and madea feint of taking their numbers. We shouldhave had a quantity of depressing reflectionsabout the young women in London, so bold andbad-mannered, and as an upshot we should havesold with infinite depression one-fifth of what• the bloke sells with a gusto , what is perhaps worst of all, we should haveprayed that evening, if we were not too sleepy,36
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