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By Jerome K. Jerome
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PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK
By JEROME K. JEROME
Author of "Paul Kelver," "Three Men in a Boat," etc., etc.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1909
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY JEROME K. JEROME
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
Published, September, 1908
PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK
The neighbourhood of Bloomsbury Square towards four o'clock of a
November afternoon is not so crowded as to secure to the stranger, of
appearance anything out of the common, immunity from observation.
Tibb's boy, screaming at the top of his voice that _she_ was his
honey, stopped suddenly, stepped backwards on to the toes of a voluble
young lady wheeling a perambulator, and remained deaf, apparently, to
the somewhat personal remarks of the voluble young lady. Not until he
had reached the next corner--and then more as a soliloquy than as
information to the street--did Tibb's boy recover sufficient interest
in his own affairs to remark that _he_ was her bee.
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