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                                  the wrong shop. During the past four minutes or
                                  thereabouts he had been staring hard at a certain amount
                                  of number one Bass bottled by Messrs Bass and Co at
                                  Burton-on-Trent which happened to be situated amongst

                                  a lot of others right opposite to where he was and which
                                  was certainly calculated to attract anyone’s remark on
                                  account of its scarlet appearance. He was simply and
                                  solely, as it subsequently transpired for reasons best known
                                  to himself, which put quite an altogether different
                                  complexion on the proceedings, after the moment before’s
                                  observations about boyhood days and the turf, recollecting
                                  two or three private transactions of his own which the
                                  other two were as mutually  innocent of as the babe
                                  unborn. Eventually, however, both their eyes met and as
                                  soon as it began to dawn on him that the other was
                                  endeavouring to help himself to the thing he involuntarily
                                  determined to help him himself and so he accordingly
                                  took hold of the neck of the mediumsized glass recipient
                                  which contained the fluid sought after and made a
                                  capacious hole in it by pouring a lot of it out with, also at
                                  the same time, however, a considerable degree of
                                  attentiveness in order not to upset any of the beer that was
                                  in it about the place.





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