‘Did I ever tell you old boy,’ he said, chuckling round the stem of his pipe,’ about the time those two nippers of mine set fire to the old market woman’s skirt because they saw her wrapping up sausages in a poster of B.B.? Sneaked up behind her and set fire to it with a box of matches. But keen as mustard! That’s first rate training they give them in the Spies nowadays-better than in my day, even. What d’ you think’s the latest thing they’ve served them out with? Ear trumpets for listening through keyholes! My little girl brought one home the other night-tried it out on our sitting room door, and reckoned she could hear twice as much as with her ear to the hole.”
George Orwell, “1984”, 1949.
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