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The professor had called at nine stores for his lost walking stick and had found it the tenth. "Thank you so much indeed," he beamed, as he took possession of it. "Do you know, this must be one of the few honest places in town? I''ve asked at nine other places, and in each I was toldthey didn''t have it."==============================================================* take possession of : ~을 손에 넣다, 점유하다* beam : 방긋 웃다============================================================== 잃어버린 지팡이를 찾아 상점 아홉군데를 헤매고다닌 교수는 열번째로 간곳에서 그것을 찾았다. "이거 정말 고맙습니다"라며 그는 좋아했다. "이렇게 정직한 데는 별로 없나봅니다. 난 아홉군데나 찾아갔는데 하나같이 모른답니다."