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considerably puzzled by this first prize, which was in an
engrossing hand, and not very legible except to a practised eye.
Having tried it by reading from left to right, and from right to left,
and finding it equally clear both ways, he turned it upside down
with no better success.

‘Ha, ha, ha!’ chuckled Peg, who, on her knees before the fire,
was feeding it with fragments of the box, and grinning in most
devilish exultation. ‘What’s that writing about, eh?’

‘Nothing particular,’ replied Squeers, tossing it towards her.
‘It’s only an old lease, as well as I can make out. Throw it in the
fire.’

Mrs Sliderskew complied, and inquired what the next one was.
‘This,’ said Squeers, ‘is a bundle of overdue acceptances and
renewed bills of six or eight young gentlemen, but they’re all MPs,
so it’s of no use to anybody. Throw it in the fire!’ Peg did as she
was bidden, and waited for the next.

‘This,’ said Squeers, ‘seems to be some deed of sale of the right
of presentation to the rectory of Purechurch, in the valley of
Cashup. Take care of that, Slider, literally for God’s sake. It’ll fetch
its price at the Auction Mart.’

‘What’s the next?’ inquired Peg.
‘Why, this,’ said Squeers, ‘seems, from the two letters that’s
with it, to be a bond from a curate down in the country, to pay half
a year’s wages of forty pound for borrowing twenty. Take care of
that, for if he don’t pay it, his bishop will very soon be down upon
him. We know what the camel and the needle’s eye means; no man
as can’t live upon his income, whatever it is, must expect to go to
heaven at any price. It’s very odd; I don’t see anything like it yet.’

‘What’s the matter?’ said Peg.


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