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New Burlesques

CHAPTERS I TO XX
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Politeness is foreign.
Be ye beaten that ye may beat.

Pass the kick on.'" But here he was interrupted by the appearance of three soldiers who were approaching the watering-place.
"Ye are now," said the Moo Kow, "with the main guard.

The first is Bleareyed, who carries a raven in a cage, which he has stolen from the wife of a deputy commissioner.

He will paint the bird snow white and sell it as a dove to the same lady.

The second is Otherwise, who is dragging a small garden engine, of which he has despoiled a native gardener, whom he has felled with a single blow.


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