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This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.Glass
All of a sudden the wicket opened and a lot of people entered all at once in a jostling mass, and Daddy was there too, clutching the milk pan in one hand and the iron bar in the other. They had been held up at the entrance to the neighbourhood and could not get back. Difficult things were going on all the time, not only the crowd from Jaffa…
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