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The paint had been mixed in an old fruit-tin, and at first sight it certainly seemed to have been put on the post for the sole purpose of being knocked off again. "Hullo, you new kid!" exclaimed Mouler. "Look here, we want a chap for the third eleven next season a fellow who can throw straight. Come along, and let's see if you can hit that old can."
One seductive fruit-tin had a hole so large that he found he could force his head into it, and for a few minutes his joy was full as he licked into all the farthest corners. But when he tried to draw his head out, his sorrows began, for he found himself caught.
After gravely inspecting it, with his head first on this side and then on that, and his lips puckered into a little tube, he submitted it to the same punishment as that meted out to the refractory fruit-tin, and was rewarded by discovering a nice little bit of cheese in the very heart of the culprit. Johnny had evidently never heard of ptomaine-poisoning, for nothing came amiss.
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