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36 "To trim" was not a phrase I could
 * Remember having heard:

"Perhaps," I said, "you'll be so good As tell me what is understood
 * Exactly by that word?"



"It means the loosening all the doors,"
 * The Ghost replied, and laughed:

"It means the drilling holes by scores In all the skirting-boards and floors,
 * To make a thorough draught.