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Joseph
Jacobs
When he got him there, Mr. Miacca dropped him out;
and when he saw him, he said: “Ah, you’re the youngster
what served me and my missus that shabby trick, leaving us
without any supper. Well, you shan’t do it again. I’ll watch
over you myself. Here,
get under the sofa, and I’ll set on it
and watch the pot boil for you.”
So poor Tommy Grimes had to creep under the sofa, and
Mr. Miacca sat on it and waited for the pot to boil. And they
waited, and they waited, but still the pot didn’t boil, till at
last Mr. Miacca got tired of waiting, and he said: “Here, you
under there, I’m
not going to wait any longer; put out your
leg, and I’ll stop your giving us the slip.”
So Tommy put out a leg, and Mr. Miacca got a chopper,
and chopped it off, and pops it in the pot.
Suddenly he calls out: “Sally, my dear, Sally!” and nobody
answered. So he went into the next room to look out for
Mrs. Miacca, and while he was there, Tommy crept out from
under the sofa and ran out of the door.
For it was a leg of the
sofa that he had put out.
So Tommy Grimes ran home, and he never went round
the corner again till he was old enough to go alone.
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