Cheap Jack Zita
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Baring-Gould Sabine. Cheap Jack Zita
CHAPTER I. BEFORE THE GALILEE
CHAPTER II. THE FLAILS
CHAPTER III. TWO CROWNS
CHAPTER IV. ON THE DROVE
CHAPTER V. THE FLAILS AGAIN
CHAPTER VI. BETWEEN TWO LIGHTS
CHAPTER VII. PROFITS
CHAPTER VIII. MARK RUNHAM
CHAPTER IX. PRICKWILLOW
CHAPTER X. RED WINGS
CHAPTER XI. TIGER-HAIR
CHAPTER XII. ON BONE RUNNERS
CHAPTER XIII. PIP BEAMISH
CHAPTER XIV. ON ONE FOOTING
CHAPTER XV. ON ANOTHER FOOTING
CHAPTER XVI. BURNT HATS
CHAPTER XVII. A CRAWL ABROAD
CHAPTER XVIII. A DROP OF GALL
CHAPTER XIX. NO DEAL
CHAPTER XX. DAGGING
CHAPTER XXI. THE FEN RIOTS
CHAPTER XXII. TWENTY POUNDS
CHAPTER XXIII. TEN POUNDS
CHAPTER XXIV. A NEW DANGER
CHAPTER XXV 'I DON'T CARE THAT!'
CHAPTER XXVI. A NIGHT IN ELY
CHAPTER XXVII. SIR BATES DUDLEY'S RIDE
CHAPTER XXVIII. TWO PLEADERS
CHAPTER XXIX. A DEAL
CHAPTER XXX. IN COURT
CHAPTER XXXI. PISGAH
CHAPTER XXXII. A PARTHIAN SHOT
CHAPTER XXXIII. PURGATORY
CHAPTER XXXIV. WITH TOASTING-FORKS
CHAPTER XXXV. THE JACK O' LANTERNS
CHAPTER XXXVI. A RETURN BLOW
CHAPTER XXXVII. A CATHERINE WHEEL
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE BRENT-GEESE
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE CUT EMBANKMENT
CHAPTER XL. THISTLES
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'NOW, here's a chance you may never have again—a chance, let me tell you, you never will have again.' She extended in both hands packages of tea done up in silvered paper. 'The general public gets cheated in tea—it does—tremenjous! It is given sloe leaves, all kinds of rubbish, and pays for it a fancy price. Father, he has gone and bought a plantation out in China, and has set over it a real mandarin with nine tails, and father guarantees that this tea is the very best of our plantation teas, and he sells it at a price which puts it within the reach of all. Look here!' she turned a parcel about; 'here you are, with the mandarin's own seal upon it, to let every one know it is genuine, and that it is the only genuine tea sent over.'
'Where's the plantation, eh, girl?' jeered a boy from the grammar school.
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'It is yours,' said the girl to the man Runham, and she handed him the flail. She saw that the passions of the two men were roused, and she deemed it desirable to close the scene, lest a fight should ensue, in which, possibly, she might lose the money that had been offered.
Runham, flourishing his flail over his head, and throwing out the flapper in the direction of Drownlands, said, 'There, now! Who can say but what I'm the best off of the two? Mine cost me a guinea, and his beggarly flail not above twelve and six. I am the better man of the two by eight and six.'
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