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Mr Bailey squinted at every successive dab, as it was deposited on a cloth on his left shoulder, and seemed, with a microscopic eye, to detect some bristles in it; for he murmured more than once 'Reether redder than I could wish, Poll. The operation being concluded, Poll fell back and stared at him again, while Mr Bailey, wiping his face on the jack-towel, remarked, 'that arter late hours nothing freshened up a man so much as a easy shave.
"Right Bob," replied his father, rising from his knees and throwing the jack-towel at him. The lad easily evaded the shot, being well accustomed to elude much more deadly missiles, and, picking up the towel, quietly set to work to perform the duty in dispute. "You're wanted," he said, looking up at his father while he wrung the towel over a tin basin. "Eh! Where?" "Up at the shed."
So saying the man left the cellar, and the boy, who was much exasperated, though decidedly sobered, by his treatment, proceeded to dry himself with a jack-towel, and make preparations for the intended burglary. The house in regard to which such interesting preparations were being made was buried, at the hour I write of, in profound repose.
'Just give your hands a bit of a rinse, said the clerk, 'and put on your things and come down into the manager's office, will you? Paul nodded, and went off to the sink and the jack-towel, wondering a little. When in due time he presented himself before the manager he was at once enlightened. 'That is your week's money, Armstrong, and your services will not be required here further.
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