The Craze of Christina — page 24: what you’re looking at

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20 | The Craze of Christina. ‘‘Hush,’’ interrupted Mr. Clifford sharply, as he pointed a long tapering finger out towards the home park. ‘‘What are these—advancing— things?”’ Docker approached, looked out of the window and sniffed. A sniff of scorn, not unmingled with baffled rage. **Them?—oh, them be wo—ladies a-ridin’ on bicycles, Mr. Clifford, and,’’ he added in the depths of his disgusted heart, ‘‘they be a com- in’ and a pokin’ their noses in here, where they’re not a-wanted!”’ GComichooks.co