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Quote 7 of 7

You should be ashamed of yourselves, boys!  There are thousands of
children in this world who would give anything for a little stew like
that.'

Karlson put his hand in his pocket and took out a notebook and pencil.

'Would you give me the names and addresses of two of them?' he said.

But Miss Black muttered and wouldn't give him any addresses.

'The whole lot of them must be little firemen's children, I should
think,' said Karlson, 'they've probably never eaten anything but fire
and brimstone.'

p. 118

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