No reason has ever been offered for this odd procedure, but Charles Stanley says that such a large order would not have been accepted from an unknown client.

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Most of the pupils have to go to work as soon as they have finished their lessons, in order to help their parents by selling cups of tea or other odd jobs.

BBC: The harsh necessity of child labour

Odd, I thought, that the toll-free number that had previously made it easy to order up a check had magically disappeared from my credit card statement.

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