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time, they would try to break one of my legs. Dwarf
was their backseat driver. With his aid, they could do
whatever they wanted to do. They were expecting me
to come back eagerly. When I did come back, they
were overjoyed. They were counting on Dwarf to
organize a mass meeting to denounce me, but then
found that Dwarf had been driven out of our school.
He was ordered to go back to the coal mine to dig
coal in dejection. Since then, they had lost their boss
and could not avenge themselves.
She suggested, “You could openly make a
challenge to Soapy to wrestle you. You could make
use of that chance to break one of his legs.”
That was a very malicious trick. Wrestling was a
very popular sport among the coal workers. It was a
very good sport for them. They often wrestled each
other in the evening to contest skills. But Elephant
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