and bring him back to prison. In the picture Sergeant Boffin is just saying: "Wot! 'im 'as lives up the 'ill"; and Binks is shouting, and people are coming out. You can see Sam, Sergeant Boffin's eldest boy, calling to his friends to come and see his dad knock old Binks down. The barber and the butcher are there; the cobbler (next door) is peeping; Uncle Joe is at the door with his specs on, Mrs. Golightly is standing with a parcel in her arm, and has stopped talking to Mrs. Simkins, old Gaffer Gamgee is trying hard to hear, elegant Alfred is taking a superior interest; there is somebody else's face at another window, and there are one or two kids.

But this is absolutely nothing to the excitement a minute later, when up rolled Mr. Binks' car, full of bears and Dorkinses and others, drawn by three ponies and a donkey. All the village was there in a minute. And they laughed. And they said things about Mr. Binks' tin-cars that made him angrier than he was before.

"He ought to be in prison he ought," said he, "sending home a nice car bent and all, and full of a parcel of bears and strange folk."

"G-r-r-r-r," said Archie; and Mr. Binks stepped back sudden[ly] and fell in the gutter.

"Now stand up and be polite, and say 'thank you'!" said Archie. "You ought to be very pleased we have bothered to bring your car back. Mr Bliss left it in our wood, and ran away, and hasn't been seen since."

"O yes, 'e 'as," said Binks. "I seen him sneaking 'ome, early this morning, as I was a-telling the sergeant 'ere."

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