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<v Speaker 1>Omar and oh Ma from Mister Punch's Dramatic Sequels by

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<v Speaker 1>sin John Hankin. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox

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<v Speaker 1>recordings are in the public domain. For more information or

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<v Speaker 1>to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The Rubayat of

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<v Speaker 1>Omar Khayam. When it was announced recently in an English

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<v Speaker 1>daily paper that a drama founded upon Fitzgerald's version of

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<v Speaker 1>the Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam had been compounded in the

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<v Speaker 1>United States and would shortly be seen on the stage,

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<v Speaker 1>many people may have wondered how it was done. It

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<v Speaker 1>was done as follows. Dramatis personi Lion read by Loveday

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<v Speaker 1>Lizard M. Liddon, Wild Ass read by Elizabeth Klatt.

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<v Speaker 2>Omar rid by Algie pag.

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<v Speaker 1>Crowd read by Bev Stephens, Nightingale read by Karen Savage.

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<v Speaker 3>Rose read by Charlotte Duckett, Saki read by Beev Stephens.

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<v Speaker 1>First Pot read by Ruth Golding, Second part read by

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<v Speaker 1>Elisabeth Klatt, Third.

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<v Speaker 4>Part read by Charlotte Duckett, Fourth.

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<v Speaker 1>Pot read by Allan Mapstone. Potter read by Kapricia Page

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<v Speaker 1>Narrator read by Ruth golding scene courtyard of the deserted

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<v Speaker 1>palace of jam Sheed, canopied by that inverted bowl commonly

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<v Speaker 1>called the sky. To write a tavern not deserted to

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<v Speaker 1>left a potter's house at back the grave of bah Rahm.

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<v Speaker 1>Whence a sound of sing proceeds. A wild ass stamps

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<v Speaker 1>fitfully upon it. It is four o'clock in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>and the false storm shows in the sky. In the

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<v Speaker 1>center of the stage stand a lion and a lizard,

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<v Speaker 1>eyeing each other mistrustfully.

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<v Speaker 5>Look here, do you keep these courts? Or do I?

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<v Speaker 1>Lizard resentfully?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 6>I believe we both keep them.

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<v Speaker 1>Lion sarcastically.

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<v Speaker 5>Do you, then I venture to differ from you?

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<v Speaker 4>Perhaps you rather turns?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, no, I wouldn't. I mean to have this job

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<v Speaker 5>to myself.

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<v Speaker 1>He and the lizard close in mortal combat. After a

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<v Speaker 1>gallant struggle, the latter is killed and the lion proceeds

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<v Speaker 1>to eat him. Suddenly, a shadowy form issues from the

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<v Speaker 1>grave at back of stage.

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<v Speaker 5>Bahrah By jove confound that.

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<v Speaker 1>Jackass boats remains a lizard and then bolts himself. Pursued

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<v Speaker 1>by shadowy form.

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<v Speaker 4>They said I couldn't wake him, but I knew better.

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<v Speaker 1>He exit in triumph. A sound in revelry becomes noticeable

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<v Speaker 1>from the tavern. A crowd gathers outside. The voice of

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<v Speaker 1>Omar rather tipsy is.

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<v Speaker 2>Heard when all the temple in prepare within. Why nods?

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<v Speaker 2>A lady worship outside?

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<v Speaker 1>A cock crows, and the sun rises. Crowd shouting in unison.

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<v Speaker 1>You know how little.

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<v Speaker 3>While I have to stay, and once departed.

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<v Speaker 5>We shall get back again.

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<v Speaker 1>Opening the door and appearing unsteadily on the threshold.

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<v Speaker 2>You goddamn, it's.

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<v Speaker 1>Close his door again? I say, what rot excient depressed

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<v Speaker 1>nightingale jubilantly from tree wine wine, red wine rose from

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<v Speaker 1>neighboring bush. Much shocked, my dear.

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<v Speaker 3>You don't know how your passion for alcohol shocks me.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh yes I do. But every morning brings a thousand roses.

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<v Speaker 6>After all, you're cheap, drum sheet, and I like our liquor,

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<v Speaker 6>and plenty of it.

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<v Speaker 1>Shaking her head, did disapproval?

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<v Speaker 2>I heard? He drank deep?

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<v Speaker 6>Of course he did. You should have seen him when

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<v Speaker 6>her team caught to supper. He simply went for it.

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<v Speaker 1>Blushing crimson, how dreadful, contemptuously, I.

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<v Speaker 6>Dare say, But you wouldn't be so red yourself. If

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<v Speaker 6>some buried Caesar didn't fertilize your roots, why even the

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<v Speaker 6>hyacinth's past isn't altogether creditable. And as for the grass,

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<v Speaker 6>why I could tell you things about the grass that

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<v Speaker 6>would scare the soul out.

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<v Speaker 1>Of a vegetable. Annoyed, I'm not a vegetable.

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<v Speaker 6>Well, well, I can't stay to argue with you. I've

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<v Speaker 6>but a little time to flutter myself.

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<v Speaker 1>Exit on the wing, Enter Omar from tavern. He is

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<v Speaker 1>by this time magnificently intoxicated, and is leaning on the

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<v Speaker 1>arm of a fascinating Saki. He has a jug of

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<v Speaker 1>wine in his hand, trying to kiss her.

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<v Speaker 2>Ah, my belabborn, fill the cap that clears to die

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<v Speaker 2>of past regrets and future fears. To morrow?

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<v Speaker 1>Why to morrow, I might be interrupting.

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<v Speaker 3>I know what you're going to say. Tomorrow you'll be sober,

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<v Speaker 3>but you won't. I know you go home, home, Eh?

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<v Speaker 2>What do I want with home? Book of verses underneath

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<v Speaker 2>the bear, or a jag of wine, a life of bread? No,

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<v Speaker 2>no bread, two jags of wine.

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<v Speaker 1>And there puts arm round her waist.

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<v Speaker 2>Beside me, singing like a bull.

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<v Speaker 1>Bull sings uproariously.

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<v Speaker 2>Well then it will Marybally for her tonight.

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<v Speaker 3>Fine, an old man like you.

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<v Speaker 2>Old, Thank goodness, I am old. When I was young,

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<v Speaker 2>I went to school and heard the sages. Didn't learn

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<v Speaker 2>much there, They said, I came like water and went

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<v Speaker 2>like wind. Horrid, chilly bend a hype sort of doctrine.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no better now jinks from the jug in his hand,

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<v Speaker 1>watching him anxiously.

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<v Speaker 3>Take care, you'll spill it.

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<v Speaker 2>Never mind, it won't be all goes to quinch some

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<v Speaker 2>poor biggest thirst.

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<v Speaker 1>Dawn there points below, They.

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<v Speaker 2>Say he needs it.

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<v Speaker 1>HM shocked, How can you talk so growing argumentative in

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<v Speaker 1>his cups.

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<v Speaker 2>I must obdure the balm of life, I must. I

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<v Speaker 2>must give up wine for fear of hurt. What is

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<v Speaker 2>it I'm to fear? Giup? I suppose not.

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<v Speaker 1>I takes another drink, trying to take jug from him.

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<v Speaker 1>There there, you've had enough, fast losing coherence in his

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<v Speaker 1>extreme intoxication.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk to you about THEE and me.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I want to talk.

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<v Speaker 1>About counting on his fingers.

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<v Speaker 2>You see, there's the THEE in me, and there's a

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<v Speaker 2>me in THEE. That's mysticism that he is you've forgot

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<v Speaker 2>word to say. Miss must light lamp and see if

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<v Speaker 2>I can't find it, rast be somewhere.

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<v Speaker 3>Robert, you're drunk, That's what you are, disgracefully drunk.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course I'm drunk. I am today what I was

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<v Speaker 2>yesterday and tomorrow. I shall not be less kiss.

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<v Speaker 1>Me boxing his ears.

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<v Speaker 3>I won't have it. I tell you I'm a respectable Saki,

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<v Speaker 3>and you are not to take liberties, or I'll leave

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<v Speaker 3>you to find your way home alone, becoming Maudlin.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't levy by rose by bulfich of a bullbull. You

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<v Speaker 2>know how my road is but st with pitfall and

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<v Speaker 2>with gin.

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<v Speaker 3>Disgusted, plenty of gin. I know you never can pass

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<v Speaker 3>a public house.

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<v Speaker 1>Struck with the splendor of the idea.

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<v Speaker 2>I say, let's fling the dust aside and naked on

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<v Speaker 2>the ear of heaven ride. It's shame not to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Flings off hat and stamps on it by way of

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<v Speaker 1>preliminary scandalized.

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<v Speaker 3>If you take anything else off, I shall call the police.

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<v Speaker 1>Exit hurriedly terrified.

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<v Speaker 2>Here Saki, you go back Whomon Divide by way without

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<v Speaker 2>you a pause? What's come to the girl? I only

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<v Speaker 2>spoke meta fory Kelly. Difficult word to say, meta fory.

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<v Speaker 1>Kelly, longer pause to get home.

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<v Speaker 2>Can't go alone, must wait for someone to come along.

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<v Speaker 1>Peers tipsilly about him.

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<v Speaker 2>Strange isn't it that there are lots of people go

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<v Speaker 2>along here every day? Not one returns to tell me

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<v Speaker 2>of the road. Very strange. Spurs a sleep here, spurs.

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<v Speaker 1>Rolls into ditch and falls asleep. The curtain falls for

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<v Speaker 1>a moment. When it rises again. Day is departing and

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<v Speaker 1>it is growing dark. Omar is still in his ditch.

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<v Speaker 1>The door of the potter's house to the left of

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<v Speaker 1>the stage is open, the potter having betaken himself to

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<v Speaker 1>the tavern opposite, and the pots within are arguing fiercely.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't tell me I was only made to be broken.

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<v Speaker 1>I know better. Even a peevish boy wouldn't break me.

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<v Speaker 4>The potter would whack him if he did.

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<v Speaker 1>Third part of a more ungainly make depends.

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<v Speaker 4>On what he drank out of you. What's that you say,

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<v Speaker 4>you lopsided object?

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<v Speaker 1>That's right?

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<v Speaker 4>Sneer at me? 'TI isn't my fault. If the potter's

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<v Speaker 4>hand shook when he made me, he was not sober.

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<v Speaker 1>Fourth part, I think at Sufi pipkin.

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<v Speaker 2>It's all very well to talk about pot and Potter.

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<v Speaker 1>What I want to know is what did the pot

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<v Speaker 1>call the kettle grumbling?

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<v Speaker 4>I believe my clothes too dry. That's the matter with me.

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<v Speaker 1>The moon rises, a step is heard without creaking. Enter

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<v Speaker 1>Potter from tavern Crossley.

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<v Speaker 4>Shut up and there I'll break some of you.

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<v Speaker 1>The pots tremble, and a silent seeing omar.

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<v Speaker 4>Hello, come out of that. You're in my ditch.

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<v Speaker 1>Lifts him into sitting posture by the collar, rubbing his eyes.

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<v Speaker 2>Eh, what's that? Oh? My head, my head.

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<v Speaker 1>Clasps it between his hands.

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<v Speaker 5>Get up.

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<v Speaker 1>You've been drying, thinking, dazed at his penetration.

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<v Speaker 2>I won day. He guessed that.

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<v Speaker 4>It's plain enough. You've been providing your fading life with liquor.

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<v Speaker 4>I can see that with half an eye.

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<v Speaker 2>I have, I have, I've drew on my glory in

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<v Speaker 2>a shallow cup, and my head's very bad.

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<v Speaker 4>You should take the pledge.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I've sworn to give up drink.

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<v Speaker 1>Lots of times, doubtfully, but was.

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<v Speaker 2>I sober when I swore?

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<v Speaker 1>Tell me that scratching his head, don't know, staggering to

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<v Speaker 1>his feet, what.

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<v Speaker 2>But the desert of the fountain. Heeled one glimpse in

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<v Speaker 2>more prosaic language, could you get me something to drink?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm rather star scattered myself, and the grass is wet.

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<v Speaker 1>Potter goes to house and takes up third part at random.

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<v Speaker 1>Third part delighted.

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<v Speaker 4>Now he's going to fill me with the old familiar juice.

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<v Speaker 1>Potter fills him with water and returns to Omar. Third

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<v Speaker 1>part disgusted water.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm dashed, many thinks, Oh Saki, here's.

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<v Speaker 1>The yo Jane speaker.

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<v Speaker 2>Ugh, I don't think MATCHI your liquor. I wish the

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<v Speaker 2>moon wouldn't look at me like that. She's a basically color.

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<v Speaker 2>Why doesn't she look the other way?

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<v Speaker 1>Sarcastically wants to see you, I suppose darkly.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, someday she won't. That's all fair will, o'm shaki.

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<v Speaker 2>Yours is a joyous errand but I wish you had

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<v Speaker 2>put something stronger in the.

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<v Speaker 1>Glass, handing it back to him.

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<v Speaker 2>Turn it down. There's a good fellow.

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<v Speaker 1>Exit the end. End of Omar and Oh My, and

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<v Speaker 1>of mister Punchure's Dramatic Sequels by St. John Hankin