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It is in Fitzroy Road.1 Some boys are playing in the road and among them a boy in uniform, a telegraph-boy perhaps.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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It is in Fitzroy Road.1 Some boys are playing in the road and among them a boy in uniform, a telegraph-boy perhaps.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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It is in Fitzroy Road.1 Some boys are playing in the road and among them a boy in uniform, a telegraph-boy perhaps.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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It is in Fitzroy Road.1 Some boys are playing in the road and among them a boy in uniform, a telegraph-boy perhaps.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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From our colleague, who is a goldmine of wisdom but whose gold is not legal tender, the telegraph-boy passed into the hands of the Baron,
The Captive 2003
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Then he suddenly remembered that those letters had been out of his possession once - that time when he had apparently dropped them in the road, after colliding with the red-haired telegraph-boy.
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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"I'm afraid I've no red-haired, freckled telegraph-boy for a friend, much as I would like one, " said Fatty.
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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But he made a mental note to get hold of that telegraph-boy and ask him a few questions.
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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Mr. Goon departed, determined to run the red-headed butcher-boy, and the equally red-headed telegraph-boy to earth.
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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I bet he'll go about looking for that telegraph-boy now - he knows he's the one who handed him the letters he was supposed to have dropped.
The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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