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81
"
But
that
s
dishonest
,
daddy
,
"
Matilda
said
.
"
It
s
cheating
.
"
82
"
No
one
ever
got
rich
being
honest
,
"
the
father
said
.
83
"
Customers
are
there
to
be
diddled
.
"
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84
Mr
.
Wormwood
was
a
small
ratty
-
looking
man
whose
front
teeth
stuck
out
underneath
a
thin
ratty
moustache
.
He
liked
to
wear
jackets
with
large
brightly
-
coloured
checks
and
he
sported
ties
that
were
usually
yellow
or
pale
green
.
"
Now
take
mileage
for
instance
,
"
he
went
on
.
"
Anyone
who
s
buying
a
second
-
hand
car
,
the
first
thing
he
wants
to
know
is
how
many
miles
it
s
done
.
Right
?
"
85
"
Right
,
"
the
son
said
.
86
"
So
I
buy
an
old
dump
that
s
got
about
a
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
miles
on
the
clock
.
I
get
it
cheap
.
But
no
one
s
going
to
buy
it
with
a
mileage
like
that
,
are
they
?
And
these
days
you
can
t
just
take
the
speedometer
out
and
fiddle
the
numbers
back
like
you
used
to
ten
years
ago
.
They
ve
fixed
it
so
it
s
impossible
to
tamper
with
it
unless
you
re
a
ruddy
watchmaker
or
something
.
So
what
do
I
do
?
I
use
my
brains
,
laddie
,
that
s
what
I
do
.
"
87
"
How
?
"
young
Michael
asked
,
fascinated
.
He
seemed
to
have
inherited
his
father
s
love
of
crookery
.
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88
"
I
sit
down
and
say
to
myself
,
how
can
I
convert
a
mileage
reading
of
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
into
only
ten
thousand
without
taking
the
speedometer
to
pieces
?
Well
,
if
I
were
to
run
the
car
backwards
for
long
enough
then
obviously
that
would
do
it
.
The
numbers
would
click
backwards
,
wouldn
t
they
?
But
who
s
going
to
drive
a
flaming
car
in
reverse
for
thousands
and
thousands
of
miles
?
You
couldn
t
do
it
!
"
89
"
Of
course
you
couldn
t
,
"
young
Michael
said
.
90
"
So
I
scratch
my
head
,
"
the
father
said
.