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In amoment Ben was simply blocking with his gloves as well as he could.
Clearly
no schoolstory can compete with this kind of thing.
Look at these twoextracts,
for example:Billy Bunter groaned. But, I said, isnt it a fact that the average
Jew is a labourerworking for about a penny an hour?
Bills chin was bleeding,
and Ben had a cut overhis right eye.
Bills chin was bleeding, and Ben had a cut
overhis right eye.
There are also traces of earlier origins.
The one theme that
is really newis the scientific one.
Clearly no schoolstory can compete with
this kind of thing.
On the other hand, there has always been a very
strongtemperance strain.
Theivy clusters thickly round the old grey stones.
All
literature of this kind is partly plagiarism.
After all, England is always in
the right and England alwayswins, so why worry?
They seem to bring you face to
face with Nature. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.
In
addition, the various nicknames arerubbed in on every possible occasion.
Can
you give me alist of the Shell and their studies? The Wild West still leads, at
any rate as a setting, thoughthe Red Indian seems to be fading out. Other
fellows were in extra French as well as Bunter. Here is one from the Gem:Oh
cwumbslOh gum!
Still, a whiteskin is always fairly conspicuous.
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