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COULD you tell me how to getthere, as I would love to sec the building?
Every
white man there has this thought stowedsomewhere or other in his mind.
On the
other hand, there has always been a very strongtemperance strain. And there is
no question that these papers are also read byadults.
Stealing, for instance,
barely enters as a motif.
Certainlynothing half so revealing exists in
documentary form.
His feelings, infact, were inexpressible.
In addition, the
various nicknames arerubbed in on every possible occasion.
Not hostile, not
contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.
All Ican say from my own
observation is this.
Butthe look he gave me was not in the least the kind of
look you mightexpect.
Whereas the GEM and MAGNET derive from Dickens and
Kipling, the WIZARD,CHAMPION, MODEM BOY, etc.
It is usual to plough with a cow
and a donkey yokedtogether.
But, I said, isnt it a fact that the average Jew is
a labourerworking for about a penny an hour? Clearly no schoolstory can compete
with this kind of thing.
This is as much as the strength of theanimals is equal
to.
On the other hand, there has always been a very strongtemperance strain.
The Gem in additionto its school story carries one or more adventure serial.
Theivy clusters thickly round the old grey stones. Needless to say, these
stories are fantastically unlike life at a realpublic school.
Other fellows
were in extra French as well as Bunter.
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