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Tom, is my hat brushed?" "Ye'es, sir," replied Tom, bringing the doctor's hat. "Now then, Jack, I'm all ready. Tom, mind the shop, and don't eat the stick-liquorice d'ye hear?" "Ye'es, sir," said Tom, with a grin from ear to ear. The doctor followed me very quick, for he thought from my impatience that something serious must be the matter.
At a very early period, indeed, his commercial genius manifested itself: and by happy speculations in toffey; by composing a sweet drink made of stick-liquorice and brown sugar, and selling it at a profit to the younger children; by purchasing a series of novels, which he let out at an adequate remuneration; by doing boys' exercises for a penny, and other processes, he showed the bent of his mind.
Frederick Langford; "it is a what shall I call it? a puerile delusion, which their mammas can always defeat when they choose by a formidable list of colds and coughs; but I won't put you in mind of how often you have sat with your feet on the fender croaking like an old raven, and solacing yourself with stick-liquorice and Ivanhoe."
Good bye, Jack; I must go and look after Tom, he's swallowed a whole yard of stick-liquorice by this time." Soon afterwards Ben the Whaler came in to inquire after my father, and I told him what had occurred. He was very indignant at my mother's conduct, and, as soon the affair was known, so were all the tenants of Fisher's Alley.
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