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 Rh the waddling madam star taps taps.

unspontaneous streets make bright their eyes a blind irisher fiddles a

scotch jig in a stinking joyman bar a cockney is buying whiskies for a turk

a waiter intones:bloo-moo-n sirkusricky platzburg hoppytoad

furious taximan p(ee)ps on his whistle somebody says here’s luck

somebody else says down the hatch the nigger smiles the jew stands besides his teddy-bears

the sailor shuffles the night with eyes the great black preacher gargles jesus the aesthete indulges 14