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Title: Teddy
The Story of a Little Pickle

Author: J. C. Hutcheson

Illustrator: A.M.S.

Release Date: April 16, 2007 [EBook #21105]

Language: English

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Teddy: The story of a Little Pickle

by John Conran Hutcheson
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This short book is probably of more interest to ten or eleven
year olds, rather than any other age group, for much of the book
is taken up with describing sundry very juvenile misdemeanours.

It is well written, but my personal opinion is that it is quite
inconsequential.

Still, it was quite amusing to scan it, OCR it, and edit it. N.H.
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TEDDY: THE STORY OF A LITTLE PICKLE

BY JOHN CONRAN HUTCHESON.

CHAPTER ONE.

AN INDEPENDENT YOUNG GENTLEMAN.

"I want do d'an'ma!"

This sudden and unexpected exclamation, uttered as it was in a shrill
little voice like that of a piping bullfinch, and coming from nowhere in
particular, as far as he could make out, for he had fancied himself all
alone on the platform, made the tall railway porter almost jump out of
his skin, as he expressed it, startling him out of his seven senses.

He was a stalwart, good-natured, black-bearded giant of a man, clad in a
suit of dunduckety-mud-coloured velveteens, rather the worse for wear,
and smeary with oil and engine-grease, which gave them a sort of highly-
burnished appearance resembling that of a newly-polished black-leaded
stove.

Doing nothing, and thinking of nothing specially, for the three-forty
up-train had gone through the station, and it was a good hour yet before
the five-ten down express was due, he had been lazily leaning in a half-
dreamy and almost dozing state against the side of the booking-office.

From this coign of vantage, he was, as well as his blinking eyes would
allow, gazing out over the rails at the fast-falling flakes of feathery
snow that were quickly covering up the metals and permanent way with