Chapter 60 · for subscribers
The strokes are the queue that knelt on this track on the nineteenth morning, counted up the clay between swings by a man who cannot write his own name, so that nobody waiting would be left off. The little hook at the end is not a number. He put it there to show a salt merchant's girl what a butcher draws at the bottom of a tally when the job is not finished, and it means come back.
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