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Because the earthquake’s over.



It’s all the same to me.



To me, too.

[''Short pause. The scratches his left side, then the  does the same.'']



There’s people here haven’t got a crust of bread to eat, but there’s enough money for celebrations.



These flags’d provide clothes for plenty of people.



Nobody troubles about a poor man. Look at the boy.

[In the meanwhile the has climbed on to the rostrum.]

(on the rostrum):

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, listen to the latest song about the dreadful earthquake that happened last night:

From yesterday until to-day

What an awful night we’ve had!

The end of the world was not far off,

And the earth it shook like mad.

What ho, what ho, what ho!