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These were the seeds which, cunningly sown in their minds, caused to grow up within them a bitter undiscriminating hatred of foreigners. To them the mysterious thing they variously called the 'Friscal Policy', the 'Fistical Policy', or the 'Fissical Question' was a great Anti-Foreign Crusade.
This Friscal, Fistical, Fissical or whatever the hell policy it was called, WAS Protection, therefore no one but a bloody fool could hesitate to support it. It was all quite plain quite simple. One did not need to think twice about it. It was scarcely necessary to think about it at all.
I now began to approach my thirteenth year, and, what with my rhyming and my fistical prowess, my character for bravery and the peculiarity of my situation, as it regarded its mystery I became that absurd thing that the French call "une tete montee." Root had ceased to flog me.
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