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“You must know that Solomon had no intention
of remaining in office all his life. He looked forward
to retiring by and by, and devoting his green old age
to a life of pleasure on a certain yew-stump in the
Figs which had taken his fancy, and for years he had
been quietly filling his stocking. It was a stocking
belonging to some bathing person which had been
cast upon the island, and at the time I speak
of it contained a hundred and eighty crumbs,
thirty-four nuts, sixteen crusts, a pen-wiper and
a boot-lace. When his stocking was full, Solomon
calculated that he would be able to retire on a competency.”

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Illustration by Arthur Rackham
for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Written by J.M. Barrie