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Billy braced himself and took a long breath. "We've made up our minds t' find old man Scroggie's will," he said. "Mind you," his mother admonished as he followed Mrs. Wilson down the path, "if you come home with wet feet into bed you go and stay 'till snow flies." "At 'The Swan,' sir.".
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