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New Burlesques

CHAPTERS I TO XX
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Once Dunkee, a poor relation of the Gee Gees, had tried it on, disastrously--but that is also Another and a more Aged Story.
"We are ridden by The English--please to observe the Capital letters," said Pi Bol, the leader of the Gee Gees, proudly.

"They are a mighty race who ride anything and everybody.

D'ye mind that--I mean, look ye well to it!" "What should they know of England who only England know ?" said Miaow.
"Is that a conundrum ?" asked the Moo Kow.
"No; it's poetry," said the Miaow.
"I know England," said Pi Bol prancingly.

"I used to go from the Bank to Islington three times a day--I mean," he added hurriedly, "before I became a screw--I should say, a screw-gun horse." "And I," said the Moo Kow, "am terrible.

When the young women and children in the village see me approach they fly shriekingly.


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