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Show ( . j q , -:i ten? Little I - OBLIGING The woman in the top-floor flat signaled for a sack ol coal, and the cualman toiled laboriously up many lights of stairs with his burden. 'S.nce you are going down empty." she said, "perhaps you I would take down my dustbin," a j suggestion to which the coalman gave an unwilling assent. "And there's a big box here full of rubbish, too. Perhaps you wouldn't mind " "Xot at all. missus." intervened the coalman. "I was wonderin', too, if you had a brush with a long handle han-dle which I could tie to my waist, and I'd brush your stairs for you as well on my way down." |