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. Baron Klíngen—Why were you not here yesterday?

. I could not,—I was so busy.

. What a pity! It was so interesting. (Laughing.) You ought to have seen what manifestations there were! Well, how is our charade getting on?

. Oh, yes! The verses for my second are ready. Nik has made them up, and I have added the music.

. How is it, how? Let me hear them!

. Nature is so beautiful Where bananas native are, ''Nanna, Nanna! Na, na, na!''

. My second is na, and what is my first?

. My first is Are, the name of a savage woman.

. Are, you see, is a savage, who wants to eat up the object of her love. (Laughs loud.) She walks around, and pines, and sings.


 * Ah, my appetite!

(interrupting her).
 * If I but had a bite!

(continues).
 * I want some one to eat,
 * I walk with saddened mind—

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 * No person do I find—

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 * No flesh to chew, no meat—

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 * Behold, a raft I see—

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 * It is swimming to me,
 * On it two generals are—