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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 859
Chapter --
Text the tune of a well-known song, and the children sang the words:

`To be there! to be there!
Oh, I knew what it was to be there!
And when they tore me clothes,
Blacked me eyes and broke me nose,
Then I knew what it was to be there!'

During the singing Bert turned the handles backwards and again brought on the picture of the storm at sea.
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