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NIPPER CREEGAN was a nugget of a boy, short, but stoutly built, tough and ugly, with a small corn of a nose and two narrow eyes, all set together in a wide waste of face. His mouth was far removed from the other important features, and came upon the observer as an afterthought. The ears of the truculent boy sprouted from his head with a suddenness somewhat disconcerting, and they were unnecessarily large.
"Say, Ned," observed Billy the Boy, on the occasion of Nipper's first appearance, "r them things ears, 'r what?"