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right to do so without having first asked the owner of the foot's permission.

'Now, naibours, though no common eye can see it,' the shoemaker went on, 'a man in the trade can see the likeness between this boot and that last, although that is so deformed as hardly to be called one of God's creatures, and this is one of as pretty a pair as you'd get for ten-and-sixpence in Casterbridge. To you, nothing; but 'tis father's foot and daughter's foot to me, as plain as houses.'

'I don't doubt there's a likeness, Master Penny—a mild likeness—a far-remote likeness—still, a likeness as far as that goes,' said Spinks. 'But I haven't imagination enough to see it, perhaps.'

Mr. Penny adjusted his spectacles.

'Now, I'll tell you what happened to me once on this very point. You used to know Johnson the dairyman, William?'

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