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There were lollypop shops, oyster shops, barbershops and butcher stalls where flies hummed about thecarcasses of lamb and kangaroo. In their rangering days, when things were a little slow the boys would sit around and swap stories about Augustus's eating. He was dressed in a heavycoat which swept to within an inch of the ground in themanner of a woman's skirt, his shoes being quite lost fromsight. Time has warped the facts of Ikey's arrest and differentversions have come to exist to satisfy the appetites of amateurhistorians bent on intellectual booty.

be this I'm holdin', eh?' Potbottom asked again, \ this time his demanding impatient tone caused Maryher one good eye. 'Ikey had spent his life in acquisition, sharing as little assible, and keeping as much for himself as he could. The life of Ikey Solomon is filled withiniquitous adventure; he has acted with therope round his neck for twenty It has already been noted that Mr Emmett was anunusual man and something of a dreamer, and now he listenedat