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Grummit, emphasizing his remarks with his forefinger. "I come up and beat the bed black and blue with the copper-stick; you scream for mercy and call out 'Help! 'Murder! and things like that. Don't call out 'Police! cos Bill ain't sure about that part. Evans comes bursting in to save your life I'll leave the door on the latch and there you are. He's sure to get into trouble for it.
It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock. Happily I slipped away, and deposited that part of my conscience in my garret bedroom. "Hark!" said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the chimney corner before being sent up to bed; "was that great guns, Joe?" "Ah!" said Joe.
Resooming once more, we was on a lonely and desolate ocean near Portsdown, surrounded by gorse bushes, and a Boy Scout was stirring my stomach with his little copper-stick. "You count ten," he says. "Very good, Boy Jones," I says, "count 'em," and I hauled him in over the gunnel, and ten I gave him with my large flat hand.
"If a copper comes in without being told to," he continued, "he gets into trouble for it. Now d'ye see?" "But he won't come," said the puzzled Mrs. Grummit. Mr. Grummit winked. "Yes 'e will if you scream loud enough," he retorted. "Where's the copper-stick?" "Have you gone mad?" demanded his wife, "or do you think I 'ave?" "You go up into the bedroom," said Mr.
A moment later, when the copper-stick itself was wanted, it was unusable, and there was no other at hand. One would have to be bought, or made, or found. While looking for something that would do in place of it, the poker was found lying on the table, amongst the pans and things littered there. This only made Miss Hender more irritable than before.
She raked up misdemeanours that he had long since forgotten, and, not content with that, had a fling at the entire Grummit family, beginning with her mother-in-law and ending with Mr. Grummit's youngest sister. The hand that held the copper-stick itched. "Any more to say?" demanded Mr. Grummit advancing upon her. Mrs. Grummit emitted a genuine shriek, and Mr.
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