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  • Mr. Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire by Andy Stanton Not in US, though the title will probably have to be changed to “Mr. Gum and the Cookie Capitalist”

    Kids Lit » Blog Archive » Guardian Children’s Fiction Longlist for 2007 2007

  • Mr. Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire by Andy Stanton Not in US, though the title will probably have to be changed to “Mr. Gum and the Cookie Capitalist”

    Kids Lit » 2007 » August 2007

  • Hence jealousies between him and Mr. Gum; and battles, in which they both practised the noble art of boxing and butting, which they had learned at Marybone Gardens and

    The Virginians 2006

  • Mr. Gum kept them until a few years ago, when he presented the instruments to the

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

  • But to witness unreasonably violent grief in others always has a counteracting effect on our own, and Mr. Gum soothed his sorrow and brought philosophy to his aid.

    Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

  • It is a term chiefly applied to ghosts; but Mr. Gum was a great deal more like a ghost than like a man.

    Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

  • Mr. Gum -- more often called Clerk Gum in the village -- had never done a wrong thing in his life, or fallen into a scrape.

    Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

  • A most respectable man was Mr. Gum, and he prided himself upon it.

    Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

  • With other people he was Gum, or Mr. Gum, or Clerk

    Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

  • Mr. Gum directed her attention to the church clock.

    Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850

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