Word: boots
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed is much clearer. I remember I sank into an arm-chair by the fire with no definite purpose in mind, but how long I sat thus I have no idea, - it might...
...more than a hundred years, and if he don't trouble you, I should say you might go on chumming with him; but if this sort of thing, you know, brings on his visits, you can leave off -" Here he stopped, for I was feeling instinctively for the other boot...