The only thing that prevented a father’s love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.

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• Bingo uttered a stricken woofle like a bull-dog that has been refused cake.
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• He had the look of an ostrich that had swallowed a door knob.
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