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Updated: May 12, 2025
'Hev you the money, mister? inquired a sceptical listener. 'What's that to you? cried Jentham, and finished his drink. 'Yes, I have money! He set down his empty glass with a bang. 'At least I know where to get it. Bah! you fools, one can get blood out of a stone if one knows how to go about it. I know! I know! My Tom Tiddler's ground isn't far from your holy township, and he began to sing,
"Three months," said Pelle. "Then you must be peckish. Here with the beef! More beef here!" they cried, to the cook's mate. "You can keep the potatoes and welcome! We've eaten enough potatoes all our lives!" "This is Tom Tiddler's land, with butter sauce into the bargain! This is how we've always said it ought to be good wages and little to do, lots to eat and brandy to drink!
By the time interest palled in the son a new generation of readers had arisen, and the unblushing paper commenced to run "Tom Tiddler's School-days" again. So went the whirligig.
Mick was no penman, but for all that he made the wildest promises about writing, and as for the gifts he was to send us, the place should be indeed a Tom Tiddler's ground if he were to fulfil his rash promises. Meanwhile we all pressed our parting gifts on him; some took the form of money, others were useful or beneficial, as we judged it.
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