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When witches ride a play of folkSuperstition by Elizabeth a lei.
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please visit librivox.org. Cast of characters, Uncle bunny
owner of the crossroads door read by Todd and his sudden read
by Lori Wilson. Jake formerly a railroad
engineer. Read by Jim Gallagher Zeb Ward.

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The which read by Jennifer Pratt, Seeing directions.
Read by Kelly Taylor. Sing The Storehouse of a
crossroad store. The action takes place in the
back country of North Carolina near the Roanoke, River.

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At a time when the people of Northampton County still
believed in witches at a time, when the people of North Hampton
country still believed in witches a stormy night The room
is a typical Log Cabin. Roughly build red, pepper herbs
and dried vegetables. Hang from the low Rafters boxes

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and Bales are piled in disorder.Among the farm, implements
kitchen utensils and miscellaneous articles from the
stock of a Crossroads General Store.
Dust and cobwebs are everywhere in the back wall at the right, a
small opening cut in the logs serves as a window with a rough

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shutter, hinged Loosely at the right side, the door in the back
wall. At the left is hidden by a dirty
sheet, hung over it to keep out the cold air in the right side
wall is a huge stone fireplace and which a hot fire.
Fire blazes the opening being nearly filled with logs.

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A large supply of wood is pile beside the fireplace at.
Write a big jug of liquor standson a box in that corner.
There is a rough bench in the front of the fire in the front.
At the left is a table 3 lighted.
Candles a small straw covered jug mugs of liquor and coins are

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on the table. Add Jake and uncle.
Benny are seated around the table, playing cards and
drinking outside. The storm is gathering.
Uncle benny is very old. His face is wrinkled and
weather-beaten. He has no teeth in his nearly
bald, he wears an old shirt and Rusty trousers.

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Ed is middle-aged and red of face very tall, unlike his
shoulders droop. And his whole appearance is that
of slouch Enos he wears a dirty shirt and sleeves rolled up and
ragged overalls. Jake is older than Ed.
He is Burly and strong commanding respect from the

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others who fear his bad temper. He is something of a bully.
He wears a dark coat over his overalls and Engineers cap.
Is on his head. Uncle benny speaking in a high
nervous voice this here's mighty.
Good liquor, ain't it's so Jake,Jake, pours himself, another

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glass. It's your play head.
I reckon you might as well. Pour me some more to while
you're about it. Jake pores.
While uncle benny holds his cup.Suddenly a loud crash of Thunder
is heard. Uncle benny.
It's up and jerks his hand away.Nearly spilling the contents of

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The Jug Jake, grabs The Jug and sets it down with a bang.
Stretch your idol, man. Do you want to waste all this
good whiskey. What's the matter with you?
Hey oh no Jake. I didn't mean no harm.
I reckon you know about wasted all this here liquor and drawing

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testily. Well, they tune out of your
locker. Is it?
It Jake turning on him. What are you jumping in about?
You're both about the jump out in your Skin's where you feared
of paint nothing but Thunder andI might but it's an awful night,
Jake. It's which weather thunder and

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lightning on a cold night. Like this here just the night
before, which is to be riding and Spirits to be walking and I
can't leave off from feel and that's bad.
Looks coming too. Hear a very loud Thunderclap is
heard as the storm grows more Fierce.

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Oh, lordy lordy. It's what powerful queer storm.
Sure. But brace up popping have
another drink. The mugs are filled again,
Mighty strange things has happened on a night like this
here and right now the Roanoke River here to, i - how How it

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was just a storm such as this when a which read my old woman
to death. Oh yes, sir.
When she woke up in the morning,there was dirt in between her
fingers and her hair was all tangled up.
What the which had done made story of sahabat Port of Rider
through the Briars. She was nigh about wore out and

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all she could do was to stared gape and Mumble about going.
The keyhole. Oh shucks, your old woman drunk
myself to death and I reckon it didn't take much right in the
finisher, neither, if you'd beendriving a railroad engine and I
about all over Carolina and intoVirginia, like I have you two

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seen so many sites, they didn't take more than any old hag, give
you the shakes and you go back country which like, Phoebe.
Ward can't scare me off from a good drum, like this.
Here, let me tell you all that. They do say, ol Phoebe herself
is prowling around in this neighborhood, her and that
turned Old Toad. She carries around.

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She slept cross the river last night.
Then, Jeff Bailey seen her cutting through the low grounds
bout to Dawn. Well, I just like to see your
which Phoebe one more time and Ifinish for her Claire to
goodness. The last time she come round my
house. I fixed her good and pretty, I
took the fire rightful. I love red, pepper pods, and

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scheana about sneeze her head off.
It didn't take old Phoebe long to pick up that toe to hers and
clear out of there. Damn, if it did, I reckon she
won't come soon again to stay with me.
Rolling thunder is heard. They do say is how she was
marriage. The Devil Himself once I've
heard him say he's coming and stuff and carry her off one of

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these days when her times come. I reckon he'll get his whole
when her time comes for all thatI'll brace up any.
I'd like to get my hands on thatOld.
Toad uncle benny looks around fearfully as though dreading her
appearance, he gets up and shuffles slowly to the fireplace

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speaking. As he goes.
I heard tell it was her told, this was Spirit, the vomit,
leads her to a place and then sets on the hearth stones.
Just toilets time for her to move.
She won't stir from that place. Twere old, givi commences to hop
off first. She didn't wait for Toda hop.

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Last time she visited me. Let me tell you all that you'd
best in mind. How?
You rile Phoebe shake. They do say, is him what angers?
Her will be witched, they say hers Bellow pass on him and give
you'll be his spirit. You have to move when that toe
commences The Hop, just the sameas all Phoebe.

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I'd like to see any Old Toad frog.
Make me move on a good joke of Liquors.
The only thing I Put a Spell on me and Rises and speaks to uncle
benny who was warming his hands at the fire wall.
Let's have another draft pop as they stoop over the big jug in
the corner to the right, a terrific Thunder.

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Crashes heard. They drop the jaw.
With a bang and Jake strides over to them.
In a rage, the witch has enteredunseen having slipped through
the curtain over the door. Phoebe.
Ward is very old and bent and wrinkled her dress is wrapped
around her in rags and on her head, she wears an old Bonnet

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which does not hide her wizened face.
There are two pockets in her skirt.
She stands rubbing her hands, pinched, and blue with the cold
Jake, with his back to the door.He has not seen Phoebe.
Damn, you give me that joke you to Old fools?
Are you going to waste all that liquor yet?

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The others are bending over The Jug, Paralyzed by the sight of
Phoebe who advances slowly into the room.
What are you staring at? He Wills around sees Phoebe and
starts back in amazement. The, which there is a dead
silence. Well, Phoebe Shivers towards the

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fire. Good Lord, how'd she get in?
Uncle benny cowering, in fear. Sure.
You boys, she's done come through the large hole.
Jake hesitated, what are you doing here Phoebe?
Ignores, Jake and comes down Center, Ed.

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And Uncle be any cross to the left as she advances and Retreat
behind the table in fear. She speaks to a no Object
concealed in her pocket. Now.
Gibby, quit your happen. She takes the toad out of her
pocket, shuffles slowly to the right, and puts the Toad, on the

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end of the bench. Now, this, here's why, are you
leaving me rest a bit. Now, I need to iron out old
frog. She crosses to the right of the
table. Uncle being a spy.
Powerful tired, has done come nigh on to 10 mile from the

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river. Being me rest, a spell, me and
Gibby. You sure know Jake takes a step
forward menacingly, get out of here.
You damn witch and an uncle, benny regarded, his boldness
with alarm. Phoebe slowly turns to Jake

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watching the effect of her Wordswhich make even Jake drawback
taint. No good luck.
It'll bring to you Jake. If you drives me out again Into
the Storm, my spell will pass onhim.
At harms me into Spirits, be driving him, like they drive old

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Phoebe for its mold, man. The devil you'll be And with
this time, it's a demon, the water Riding, the Storm them and
Gibby, he'll be driving, I ain'tit.
So gonna be driving and driving never resting 12gb rests.

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Won't you leave me. Want myself a bit poor?
Oh, Phoebe. With the sperits been driving.
Don't rile. Her Jake.
Don't rile. Euler Jake grudgingly as he goes
to the back of the room. Well, sit out.
Phoebe. Warm yourself turns on her, you

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got to ride yourself off, presently.
You hear me. He comes down towards the table.
Phoebe sits down on the bench. Looking very helpless and old
pain. As if I'll ever warmer
self-forgetting. Jake pain as if I'll ever see it
again and watch, the Flames are snapping.

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And thus after says, one in the Hickory logs, when my Gibby
starts to help enough for me this time, poor old, Phoebe's
Blige to go. She'll be gone for good.
Jake and this here's the lab. Last time you lay your eyes on
these poor old woman Jake. This here's the last time this

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here's a lace time you talking about Phoebe are you studying
for a ride off home to help withyour old man?
The devil she's gonna write us off to death of Jake, don't make
her, which US leave a be a loud crash and Roll of Thunder is
heard as the storm increases theshutter and the door.

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Rattle loudly in the wind Phoebe.
Looks around wildly done here. The blackens calling in the
Thunder, she Rises and goes to the window.
The devil's riding on the fiery,Blaze and lightning and the
black and Zara screeching in thewind.

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Oh, they're straddling on the storm clouds and they're leaning
down and stretching out and callhim for old.
Phoebe, don't you hear? Mm, Jay don't you hear them?
Voices shrieking, the wind blowsloudly.

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Don't you hear them demon claws as scratching at the door.
They're calling me. Ain't they Gibby.
And when my times done up all goriding through the storm clouds
and this here's the last time you'll be seeing me on this
Earth. This year's the last time I

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ain't it gay bi. She mumbles to herself what she
mumbling about the candles flarein the draft.
Who look look, Jake. We've got three candles.
Opponent is a sure sign of deathin this place.
Quavering, don't let her girth has off.
I die in this place, he goes to Jake and seizes him appealingly.

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I know which doctor Bu fear. Don't leave this Harold corpse
behind me when I go over the black and still be called it.
And when my time is done over here in the devil, his self take
me to riding by side. I'll be riding on the storm
clouds as they Thunders through the sky.

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I'll be riding off in lightning and you won't see no trace of
Phoebe left behind. Just a little while just a
little while. Ed less frightened host and warm
yourself. Phoebe, hey, don't mind.
Jake is sort of queer self. I reckon they watch as Phoebe

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Paul's the bench nearer to the fire and settles herself
crouched over the warmth. They sit down as far away from
her as possible, but Ed and Benny are still uneasy.
Thunder is heard. Ji, bu been a rattling around
and happened. Don't be signing me to go, right

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yet. Just leave me, sit a spell and
get a rest and warm and set. Still Gibby set.
Still sad. Still uncle benny steering
fascinated at the toad. I don't like these here
goings-on. I don't, I don't like that.
Vomit of hers. I sure wish that all It would

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hop off from here and signed a hag.
She's got to move on. I hope to God.
This here is the last time for all Phoebe.
Phoebe lies down on the bench. Sad still Gibby sit still or I
don't like to stay in this place.
Jake take. No good luck coming from three

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lights in a room and I'm fear tothat varmint.
It's a demon sure. One Of us will be witched.
If we stays lets us go Jake, shaking off any fears and
speaking with studied gruffness,what the screech in Devil's.
Get you from the clouds rolling.Thunder, is heard that all told

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makes my flesh crawl, something's going to happen.
Come on, boys. I ain't going to let this here
hag, and her dirty old told spoil my good liquor.
I'm going to have a drink. He feels The Jug and pours more
Whiskey. In the mugs.
As he goes to the corner, to thebig jug.

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He looks defiantly at Phoebe. She's done gone to sleep as
peaceful as you please. He sits down to drink and the
others recover a little I ain't going little Phoebe, which me I
ain't fair to her and looking intently at Jake, they do say
how which is Kate harm them as is He's like themselves

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insinuating, they do say these men witches to Jake begins to
show drunken bravado, he speaks sarcastically.
Well. Now maybe, I am a witch, I never
thought about it before. I never did know, just how to
call myself, but maybe that's just what I am a witch laughing

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with a Swagger and uncle benny. Yeah, you better look out for
me. Betty.
No Jake I ain't never done nothing again.
You Jake now you know I ain't Jake add half maliciously.
They do say there's something queer.
When a man ain't a fear to whichinner demon.

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No I feared her, he takes another drink, all show the
effects of the liquor and I'll tell you all what I'll do.
I'll go right up to the old hag and snatch that cap right off in
her head. I will he rise.
Has they do say she keeps a heapof money in that old Bona to
hers. Uncle benny, he rises, don't

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touch her Jake. Don't rile her litter be as Jake
advances to the bench where Phoebe lies.
Oh, Jake! I'll see if this here old bundle
is full of demon which bells arejust good money.
He puts out his hand towards thecab Uncle Ben Jumps up traveling

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with horror as a crash of Thunder is heard outside.
Don't you? Take a look at that.
Which look there. There ain't nothing.
But a skin lying there. See how shriveled his Oh Lordy
Jake. She's done already slipped out
of her hide and she's flying through the sky she left his

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skin behind. Oh lordy lordy.
Alright drat you Benny, quit your Shrieking, you'll jump out
and your skin. Next this, here's Phoebe Ward
and all her to with a Swagger and I'll show you before uncle,
benny can stop him. He reaches out, and lays a

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finger on Phoebe's hand, he draws back awestruck.
Well, I'll be damned, he touchesher again.
My God. Many if he ain't did get a
Lookingglass Ed. Ed brings a cracked glass from
the mantle Shelf. Jay Cole's it before Phoebe's
mouth. Yes, sir.

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Sure, as you're born, Phoebe Ward's, done.
Blew out. She had her last ride for sure.
Cover her up, Jake. Cover her up.
I don't want to see her. No more than three lights.
Was a sign. Oh, lordy lordy.
Jay goes to the door and pulls down the old sheet.
Throws it over Phoebe there. Now, that'll do, he goes to the

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table and drains, the glass are pretty soft ball and have a
drink. Think they all drink in silence?
Whoa, she's gone. See, you are all Phoebe's dead
and I reckon we might as well drink her wake right now.
Fill up all it. Pours the whiskey.

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While Jake takes the candles from the table and places to at
her head and one at the feet of the corpse.
Here's you Jake. He drinks.
Here's told Phoebe. He drinks.

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He drinks. This place is getting cold.
Need some more wood on the fire.The fire has burned low and the
light is dim. Well you put it on.
I wouldn't go neither that therewhich is corpse not.
If her old cap was plumb full ofgold.

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I'd shake hands with her old man.
The devil is self tonight. Jake gets up and goes around the
bench to the woodpile with his back to the corpse.
Phoebe sits up very slowly and feebly pushes aside.
The Shroud. The Thunder is heard above the
storm outside, the shutter bangs.

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And the candles are puffed out, Jake drops his load of wood into
the fire and turns towards the bench as he hears the sound
behind him, he leans against theside of the fireplace.
All stand Spellbound gazing at the witch.
Uncle benny, give me a drop of liquor.

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It's mighty cold over here shivering.
She gets up and shuffles towardsthe table, Ed and Benny retreat
in horror. I'm done Frizzle clean through
just one little drop before I gothis here's my last time.
She picks up a cup and gulps hurriedly as if fearful that she

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will be forced to go before it is finished.
Is. Here's my last time this here's
your last time. Is it weren't you dead?
Ain't we done drunk. Your wake any time to bury you.
Now, you get yourself out in that third or Phoebe, Ward.
You're dead for sure. And I'm going to bury you now.
The storm outside grows fiercer with the heavier Sound of

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Thunder. Flashes of lightning are seen
through the window as the shutters swings in the Wind.
You best leave me be Jake tanking your hands to dig a
grave war. Feeble.
I won't be no good. That'll follow him is sees me
ride the clouds tonight. Jake frenzied he dashes her

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aside and strides to the door. You won't ride the clouds no
more now, will you damn, which you're dead?
And it's time your buried. He stumbles through the door.
Come on out, or I'll come back and drag.
You out when I get your grave dug Vivid.
Lightning is seen through the doors.
Jake strides out loud. Crashes of thunder sound nearby,

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Phoebe, exalted listening as shemoves to the door.
Oh, I hear the black and stun during down the pathways of the
sky. See him whirling through the
clouds and dirt and flames of fire.
It's all of hey. Liz As and up the carrier me

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away. Strong wind and rolling.
Thunder are heard. Oh, they're screaming out for
Phoebe, in their wildest, sweeper through the storm with
the devil letter side. There's the devil, his self is
waiting and he scorching up the Blackness with the lightning of

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his eyes as though in a Answer to a call from without I'm
coming, I'm coming, I'll be right, and I'll be right in, she
stands in the open door, facing the room, and a terrific flash

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of lightning throws her figure into dark silhouette, then she
Retreats backwards and the door bangs behind.
Her uncle benny and Ed are left crouching by.
By the table. She is God.
She'll get Jake. Oh lord.
Well where's her toad? Where's her spirit There is a

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wild crack in Crash of Thunder. The doors, bang open and there
is another blinding. Flash of lightning Jake stumbles
through the door in terrible fright.
His hands are over his eyes as if he is blinded.
He Groats stumbling to the tableand falls into a seat.
I seen him. I seen him.

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My Lord. What, what was it?
Jake I'm witched. Oh, I've seen the black ends in
hell. I seen the devil itself, I seen
him. I seen the old, man.
The heavens don't open like a blazing roaring furnace in the
storm. Cloud rap will feed me round and
snatched her up in Fire and all the Clone demons out and he'll

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rip roarin past. My ears only Blinded Me with
Balls of Fire and knocked me to the ground.
And the devil is self, don't carry doubtful Phoebe to ride
Among The Witches. I seen him, I don't see him.
My God, he's seen the Devil, he's which to show Sure.
Uncle benny moves back, trembling and steps against the

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toad, which has moved near to the table.
He jumps in Fright and stares atit in Horror.
Oh, good lord. The spells here.
What do you see the toad? My God, she left her towed.
His son, moved. Its moved from where she put it.

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Oh, smells passed on Jake. Demons which to him.
Oh Lordy, it's moved it moved struggling as with a spell.
Oh, I got to go to that. Which is towed, done.
Got me. And I got to go retreating from
the toad. With his hands to his eyes as

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before. I'm Goin Gibby, I'm going, I'm
going. He turns at the door and
stumbles out into the night, thedoor.
Remains open on Blackness and a roaring Wind Blows through the
room. Leaving it, nearly in Blackness
as Ed and uncle benny stare at the toad and Retreat and horror

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it. Done got him, this devil took
him oh-ho. Lord help us.
What is lordy? Ed and uncle benny fall on their
knees and crouch in abject Terror.
The sound of thunder is heard rolling in the distance.

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Curtain. End of when witches ride by
Elizabeth a lei? The woman Tamer by Louis Essen.
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The woman Tamer a play in one act.
Characters cakey read by Sonia. Drops, Iran thief, and Busca

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played by son of the Exiles. Smitty, the liar.
His copper red by Thomas, Peter,Constable Jones, read by algy
pug stage. Directions read by Kelly, Taylor
seeing front room of Katies Cottage, Front door and window

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open on a narrow Lane. Another door leads to an inner
room, a plain table. A horsehair sofa sideboard some
cheap ornaments Etc. Katie, a good-looking young
woman, reclines on a sofa smokes.

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A cigarette and looks over a sporting paper.
She turns around eagerly as chop, see Ryan enters chop.
See is fat, and lazy and unsuccessful Thief, but a street
musician and a pessimist philosopher.

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He enters singing and seems pleased with himself, Katie
Rising, how's it going? No.
Leave it to my little bud. Did you put up the job with
shipmate? It you'd like to know, wouldn't
you what is it jewelry? Blap.

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Can she give a civil answer to acivil question.
Runaway Theory and cool. Your head he takes coat off
slowly did your ferret out anything perhaps.
He might tell us chop see don't be an oyster.
I won't word. Nobody not me.

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He sings another line, throwing coat hooks on wall, it falls, he
turns and moves towards sofa. What's the strength of it?
I've been waiting all afternoon to hear how you got on.
Be a narc chop. See, on so far, give it a

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breeze. Come on shops, tell us all about
it. What's doing what I don't you
give your tongue off. And they are off, growl snarl.
He ought to be in your camel. Did he take you on?
What did he say? My oath, we want a few bones in
the truck. All ripe around it and ran, it

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Casey you I've got a right to know and I've been keeping you
last year. Oh no, what I'm doing done.
I you was turned down again, wasyou shipmate wouldn't have you
on his And shot. You had your big me cut up and

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down. Look here.
I'm getting sick of this. You mess up everything.
Yeah, it's hard bump. I saw me.
Pick me, carry it up, paint yourservant.
Am I make me? Cut up to hear me.
Why don't you get work? You ain't no decent Thief chop.

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See stung you know to much. Don't you set?
A lot of you ever done ain't seen you dive or no.
Red lat. I ain't seen you stylish.
No. Rosa.
I Indian heard about you in the herald for snow dropping.
Oh no, not you. You played the organ, your

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finger tell a woman. Me!
Biz, he ain't got none. You couldn't get a job roasting
peanuts. You couldn't offside in a
phadnis fish joint. Yeah, can't kid me.
On I what woman is you was proudto get on with me.
God bla me proud. I could have had fish eel is

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fishy. Liz, can she keep a bloke?
Yeah, like the only saw the fishin the pond.
You're all talk Bongo Williams. Got nine months for topping off
a mother chose with a bottle. He passed out four of them, you
know, Benson. And ship made danger, rats,

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Bongo didn't talk and skate about it.
He done it, low gear, pick me guard up, Katie examining him
critically, what can you do? You busk outside to pubs for
beer. Oh, you're bashed out with the
Tarts. Ain't you singing?

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You're pretty songs. I ain't seen you.
Bring in much anyhow. There ain't nothing in me.
Music. I don't flash.
No silk skirts. I don't drive no motor car since
I took you on. All you get away with couldn't
keep me in fags. Dear me.
Pick me, cut up. Look here chop, see Ryan, I

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ain't gonna argue the point withyou or Donna argue with women.
I don't argue with women. Oh, no strike me pretty.
Oh God blimey. China it up.
Why don't you get work? That's all you're fit for Pick
Me coat up. Do your own Dirty?

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Work chop? See with cigarette and mouth
Rising slowly and takes a step towards Katie.
Do you hear me? Katie putting stool in front of
her? Yes, I hear you.
What about it chops? In moving after, her knocks over

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stool while Katie slips behind table, gummy kiss.
Yeah. Katie accepting his challenge
comes from behind table and boldly face.
Has him. I'm here blast you what's your
trouble dropsy hesitatingly? Oh pass you want to go on with

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if you don't what Do you do chop?
See raises his hand? Katie involuntarily draws back.
Slightly chops. He follows her all have a good
mind to throw yet here. Grabs, hold of her.
Oh yes, squealing. Now I gives her a half-hearted

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shove Katie with hands before her eyes pretends to weep Why
don't you behave yourself? You will.
Nag - man. Yeah, put me all in a haze.
That one hurt, you stress. Turn it up.
Katie still weeps chop. See frightened?

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You brought it on yourself now. Didn't you didn't mean to hurt
y'all? Tell you, I ain't one of them.
Blokes Katie Katie burst out laughing.
Me, you couldn't hurt me. You waster moves up to the door
of Inner Room. Head the thing, like you she

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kicks code. You ain't over defense yet.
I don't argue with women. Oh, blimey exit.
KT into Inner Room, chop. See picks up coat and hangs it
on hook. Katie from Inner Room, sings a

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few lines of one of chops. He's songs.
Why don't you strangle it right off?
Yeah murder and it anyway. Don't be Hasty Clarence.
You'll strain your pretty voice and you won't be able to busk no
more to the Tarts. Yeah, give a man the chai's.

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He ain't very strong since he had the measles can sleep it
off. Off, he can't stand excitement.
He's got a weak heart. Katie inners humming with gem,
straw hat on confident, and scornful.
She picks up her basket where you going, don't talk to me and

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nice sort of thing. You are you brought it on
yourself Dania or don't job women.
You only make me tired. Where you can you find out soon?
Enough re-up with me tea. Don't you worry?
I'll come back. All right, bright and early to

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what take the acid off. He won't be nervous by yourself.
Will you exit? Katie, front door?
Get a move on? Katie looking through window.
Cheer up birdie sing a little song to yourself.
I am going to bring you home, a surprise, Katie goes away, but

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the old taste broken, he lies down on the sofa.
Sniffy, the liar comes to the door with a couple of rabbits
over his shoulder. Smithy is small, but well-built
and agile keen-eyed and light-fingered affable.

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But rather apologetic invoice and bearing He is a pickpocket
and spieler, he has a gray suit and green hat Smithy at door.
How is it chop? See you, smoothie smoothie
looking down the street where she lobbing my away.

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Ain't she a high-stepper? Smithy enters had a bonny chop.
See tie it Nathan. Fair Dinkum tight enough and
I'll tell you Oh, just put me inDonna called blimey did murder.
I ain't one of them. Like smoothie how did she take
it? Alright million.

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Katie's getting on Splendid on his.
She was born the first time I ever seen her.
Look here smithing, is this way on?
I had a handle them. All that experience of timed one
or two at the Butte. I'd sooner team one of them
Tigers down in the circus. Yeah, I know women, when I got

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on with Katie or reckoned, I'd be master in me own house.
I thought it was her place, it'smy mind.
I'm here on it yet. I want, I'm murdering, you know,
of God, Katie anyhow like a fantail.
She'll do anything for me. So, down smoothie, there's
things pretty slow, too many Jones.

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They're still a drop of beer left though.
Any luck coming. Why fuck I do Mark?
No tickets for the chance. I'll tell you.
We were blowing down to surrendered other day on one of
them Bay boats. I was with the heart and error
push. Since we had a cook at the
engine School. Blind, we were pinched
fatherless, two of them smart, and he's nicked us for being

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suspicious of, can characters relates his anecdote with
explanatory gestures. We were all hooked out and
handcuffed together. The five of us were Stood up in
a row blonde. We did look, a lot of mugs.
We smothered up the Darby's, of course, and started wording.
The Tarts we were on a good Wicked.

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When Pete says to his bit of fluff, would you like to see a
real solid bracelet ducky? Yes, I would.
She says to Pete and with that, he lifted his hands and he
shipped the bracelets and her face, she did do a bunk the farm
and wanted to stand us a couple of bottles of beer, but the John
says, no the cow. Blom, I ain't got no luck.

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What? Can Hawking.
Can't you make your living at the game?
It's hard to make a living now without work.
And bmug. What are you?
Get out of it? I'm Hawking for Carlo, Rossi on
commission Watson. I bring a moon than work for
update. Idee go, I don't want to go up

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to the farm. I'm getting full up of been
singing all over the tan. I all like to hear me sing but
they don't sling I'm much into that.
The brass don't seem to come my way, I'm gonna turn up.
I won't let a basket live. All was talking with Old Ship.

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Might this afternoon. We're all thieves e says every
blade. And one of us we're all at the
same game. As long as we're not found out
or old taken a mugs down. One Blackie says, does the trick
with a silk hat on the stock exchange and I shot The mine we

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do it with a Jimmy. It's funny.
Ain't it? Yes.
Where the mugs if we don't get abit of a run back, I'll fill in
nine months. I done.
I was dead innocent gear at yourlawyer, I was dead innocent.
They'll all tell you that all men have a right to live.

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Honesty may be the best policy and it to up school, but it
won't keep a busker in shanties.Yeah.
Mugs are made to drink out of, ain't they?
Yes. Well, drying them dry.
It don't hurt me to do it. Um, I fell in and bird.
What's the odds? It's a free life.

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It's better than bone grub and wash and Bottles.
I knit have you found out anything.
I'm having a cook round Nothin doin now.
I haven't tumbled to nothing yet.
I've only been out three weeks. Chop.
See quietly and confidently tellme is Smoothie on.

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I something. Yes.
How's a fag Topsy? Topsy gives cigarette.
Smithy lights up million ship. Might talked it over this
afternoon. Shipmate done Lizzie's block.
He's getting a bit old though. He's a shrewd, Eddie is, he's
the daddy of the lot. Let me tell you.

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We've put up a tidy. Little job down at sin killed
her. We want a Cove with a steady
nerve do, elpis water suit, you Smithy, yes.
But I felt in, I've never done ajob.
I didn't fall for, we've got thestrength of it.
It's all planned by old shipmateunder the lamp.

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All you gotta do is carry it out.
Oh, is that all? I've only got to carry it out.
Yeah. It's a sweet thing.
You know, the big ass, the one with the green shutters,
Constable Jones passes window. The Constable is a young
athletic, man, Paul, and strong.Yeah, idiot.

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He is big Jones. The Cow.
Yeah, Constable looks in at door.
Good day, mr. James, all our job.
See here we did Smithy All enters pretty hot right side in
it. I saw Katie down the street.
Did she say anything? No, I saw her buying a crayfish

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off. The Barrow.
She said she'd bring me on the surprise crayfish I/O know.
A bit about women, mr. Giant, they have funny ain't
they that all depends on how youtreat them.
But having an argument shop, seena tight nothing.
That's right. Have you heard his out today?

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No. Who Bongo Williams Bongo.
Yes. Wasn't he on with Katie before?
I don't know. The black.
That assaulted a blind man. Bongos are tough.
Snag. He can fight a bit and you'll be
pretty fresh after his heir. And exercise this city, good

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fight. I saw him knock out bunny
Thompson in five rounds at the stadium.
He has a terrible solid laughed,you're right.
It got him nine months. You were in with Bongo where
your Smithy yes, mr. Jones.
How did he take it? He was his first.
Stretching The Jug rotten atom model with him.

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Mmm, the bad temper. Gentlemen, I've marked Him you'd
better watch yourself job. See what can he do?
The Tarts will be. Did nuts on him.
When I now he's out the I pinched you.
All right? Smithy I was dead innocent.
They're all tell you that. How did you fall in?

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Got run into the pool. Somehow I couldn't drop my
bundle. Could I what were you doing in?
That yard. There was nothing there.
Something pretty good wasn't faroff.
I see. You would have taken a hand in
that thin. Well, mr.
Jones. I can't afford to miss a chance,
it ain't likely. You'll have to get busy soon.

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Smithy the law is strict nowadays.
I've only been out three weeks your qualifying for a stiff for
the crushed Smithy innocently. What have I done?
Mr. Jones. Nothing that I know of, that's
why you'll get it, you're lockedeither bring a sixer.
I'm warning you You do belong, mr.

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James, Ain't You See Me? Hawking walking, yes, mr.
Jones, R8 and smoke. You'll see me at 4:00 any
morning down at the market. Buying my rabbits, taking Fair
don't Justice. Look here, mr.
Jones showing, his hands proudly.
I'm getting blisters on my hands, Constable on impressed.

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They're more used to picking Pockets than skinning.
Rabbits. That's red hot.
You can't book me for the VAC good day.
Mr. Jones. I've got to mend my Bearer
casually. You've seen the any morning down
at the market by chop. See, see you?
After Radha? Remember me to Katie tell her.

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I always loved her at door. Go blind, mr.
Jones, give a man, a chance, exit, medieval ire, pushing
Barrow, past door and called Wild rabbit yo Smith, he's
trying to do, he's little bit. What are you doing yourself,
copsey? Katie's working doing a bit of

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washing austere, will busk outside the Pub's over the organ
or haven't heard you this week? I got a cold.
I'm learning a new song, mr. Jones, it's another Doreen.
I don't care for Comics. They all tell me.
I ought to stick the bow. Let's get you home will

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together? Yeah.
Alright. Ah no, I had to handle women.
You're a philosopher chop. See, you want to be master in
your own home. You're a clever.
A man that I am chop. See if you can do that.
Yeah, I've timed one. All two of them.
You don't want to knock him about mr.

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Cheng's yammerin, Katie lll, do anything for me?
Katie passes window. Hello, is Katie.
Now, Katie inners proudly carrying basket.
Good Dyke ID, glad to see you, mr.
Jones, pretty stuffy in here, ain't it?

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Katie put down basket by side board takes off hat.
Etc. You're looking well though?
What's this expecting visitors? You never know.
What's going to happen? That's so you never can tell.
I might happen to drop on shop. She any day.

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Now to see what he's doing for aliving hope, you do good
riddance to bad rubbish. Oh God, I had paid Constable
taking out watch. Alright, be going now turning
around at door. Did you hear anything about ship
might lightly now I know nothingof him.

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Well, it's funny. I saw you down the street this
afternoon with him. Now you never seen me with him.
It's a Kathleen Moore benigne. You know it may be four years or
it may be forever. You'd better watch yourself?
Good day, Katie good day mr. Jones will give any time.

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You're passing glad to see you. Thanks Katie, be good.
So long chop. See today, mr.
Jones. Constable goes out.
Whistling, that's right. Why?
The t0 my gree Katie is busy at the sideboard.

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She polishes things. She hums a little.
She sets down knives, Forks, Etc.
She tries two or three differentArrangements of the Crockery
till hard decorative. Hence is satisfied in a bowl in

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the center of the table. She places a bunch of boronia
from the basket. She takes out a loaf of bread, a
piece of cake, a crayfish, Etc chops, he's eyes goggle, how is
it Katie? What's up Lonnie clean?

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The knives cake strength. We are Audis.
Rania expect the Lord met Authority.
It's your pinch, the lovely cray, I needy Bhaskar.
It's like a trip to the seaside.It's all right.
Katie, it's time. We had a banquet things, ain't

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been too good with us. Hello, what's this beer
glorious? Keep your hands off.
What Loggia Katie? Talk to your equals or get lots
of things for you Katie. I want to get them for you but

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I'm slinging much into the hat for singing do or don't forget
how you stuck to me know, below the frost off stride of had a
bit of luck at last. I ain't able.
It ain't for you. No, nobody like you.
Met a bad start nagging or old. What will you do?

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I'm sick of the sight of your ugly, dial.
Katie. I am, we got on well together.
Oh Donald I could to help ya. I ain't my fault.
Let's sort of Life. Can the like, say you give a
woman? I made a blue.
My when I took you on precious little happiness, I've had in
the world. This ain't the life that I want

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or bring in all that. It Donna.
I don't get leathered on the takings do it here, music,
that's how I fell in and seek a hue and your music and your
Bosque and your organ. Yes, and your flesh.
Kluber and your Fringe and you is a kiss, Cami chop.

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See tries to kiss her, Katie breaks away.
And no, you don't need luck. None of that game with me.
Look, Blaze. No liberties from you.
God's truth. Katie what the hell?
Don't be making your tots jealous.
Strike me. Blind.
Katie, you're off your nut. Look, dear.

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You ain't no proper man here. An ornament didn't mean to hurt.
Ya. I ain't that sword.
You couldn't hurt a plate. A hot piece.
Chart. See, with sentiment may I thank
a crook Katie. You remember that picnic?
We had down the bay, the first time I ever seen you on.

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Never loved nobody, but you Gorestrike me dead.
Darn none of that. That's all dead and buried.
I'm done with you. You smoocher.
I ain't going to keep a fat lazyloafer.
Like you last year, me luck stir.
Not tell you love often. Now, far sling off.

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Katie of a naiad enough trouble.It's a shame, ain't it?
Get back to your Oregon. All that enough of this all
time, you be crop, so you will tame me.
Will you gone? He couldn't tame white mice.
What do you mean? This is what I mean, get.

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Well, don't mean to argue don't.Don't waste your time.
You can take your clearance fromme now.
Katie froze, him his coat from the hooks.
Pick up your Duds. The furniture is mine, and the
house is, in my name, is this ykt know, it ain't pointing to

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the door? It's that way.
What do you mean Katie with deadly deliberation?
This is what I mean. A better man than you or two of
you is coming out today. What?
Bongo? Yes.

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Bongo Williams. It's God's truth.
You don't like it. Don't you?
Well gear, I'll give up asking if you like of put up a job with
shipmate. Why didn't you say so before
it's too late, now is a chain Scotty.
You've had your chance. You It in.

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Oh, been so happy Katie ever since I got on with you.
Yeah, don't forget that day. Out of Greensboro mean.
Yes. Said you loved me.
Cool. Blow me.
You can't forget. Yeah.
And bad sword shop. See, I ain't been too good.
Yeah, I know. I want to make it up.

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Look, we'll have real bonds at times going out together.
I'll take it all the dancers. Oh what?
It's all over. Now you can't ring the changes
on me strike. Me balmy all, didn't mean to
punch your Katie, you punched Bongos, the bloke that can punch

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Katie. No, you're out of bounds chop
sea facing the position. So you wanna give me the Chuck,
mifa Bond Guy, Williams, Katie was some touch of pity.
Yes, you've done. On your desktop.
See Bunga, the beer, Spira, he'll spy you any day of the

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week. He's a black that bashes women
here. Jealous, ain't you?
Well me and Bongos. Fixed it up again.
He'd be here. Any minute now, straight Omer
Dia. I don't get rattled, you ain't
very strong. You know.
Listen, Katie, I can't give you up.

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I love you, I do. I can't live without you.
It's lonely on yet. Pad.
Cool blow me. I couldn't love nobody but you
Katie. He Luck's turned.
I'll tell you, I'll get the stuff will start all over again.
We'll have the buns at times, will be sweetheart.

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Yeah, look, we used to be movingtowards her.
You have been kidding me. Katie on know.
You didn't mean it a bucks. Whistle is heard.
Outside, he is Shpongle chop, c-stands helpless and perplexed.
Katie pointing dramatically to the door.

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Get cool struth Katie Bongo passes.
The window scab off, Bongo a powerful Square set man.
Dressed in a blue sweater with cap and black silk Muffler.
Boy Dog, jawed, clean-shaven, jail.

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Cropped, smiling, and confident comes to the door.
Come in. Bongo Bongo enters silent and
masterful, he stares at chop. See, take no.
Notice of him. You ain't.
No, Busca are ubongo to the terror-stricken Chop.

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See who picks up coat and hat, get out.
You come. Wow Bongo makes a step towards
chop. See Katie clutches his arm Done.
Dirty your hands on him Bongo tochop.
See see if you can get on with fishy Liz.

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She's fond of Music chop. See mix for the door while.
Bongo fans him out. Blimey, you looking pink.
How they treat, you have, you got your punch back, Bongo.
Sit down, Bongo takes seat at table, Katie puts crayfish on

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plate, Etc, had a bit, a cray, Bongo better.
And how many a will stick together Bongo when are you
going to fight in the halls and you feeling peckish?
This is what you want, she produces jug of beer and Old

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large glass here you are bongo it'll do you good have you taste
first year the block Bongo Bongodrains glass stretches out arms
and drags Katie to him as the curtain Falls.

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End of the woman Tamer by Louis Essen.
The Cyclops by euripides, translated by Edward Coleridge.
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The Cyclops dramatis personae, Salinas read by Jim lock.
First half chorus of satyrs readby Todd second.

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Half chorus of satyrs read by Jen Broda, Odysseus, read by
Adrian Stevens. The Cyclops rate boy, Alan
mapstone narrated by Abu Ali. Seen Mount Etna in Sicily,

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before the Cave of the Cyclops. Oh, brownie has a numbered are
the toils? I bear, because of the know less
now than when I was young and hail first, when thou were
driven mad by Hera and it's leave the mountain nymphs by
nurses next. When in battle with earthborn

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Spearman, I Stood Beside the underwrite as Squire, and slew
Enceladus. Smiting him full in the middle
of his storage. With my spear, come though, let
me see must, I confessed was alla dream.
No by Zeus since I really showedhis spoils to the backyard and
now am I enduring to the full atoil still worse than those for

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when Hera sent forth a race of gyrene pirates against thee that
thou mightest be smuggled far away.
As soon as the news reached me, sailed in quest of the, with my
children and taking the helm myself, I stood on the end of
this turn and steered our trim craft and my son's sitting at
the oars Made the great Billows,froth, and foam as they saw

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theme our liege, but just as we had come nigh Malia in our
course, and East wind blew upon the ship and drove us hither to
the rock of Edna. We're in lonely Caverns, dwelt,
the one eyed children of oceans,God, the murdering Cyclops
captured. By one of them, we are slaves in
his house polyphemus. They called him whom we serve.

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And instead of back here, every we are hurting a Godless
cyclopses flocks and So is my children, striplings as they are
10, the young, their of, on the edge of the Downs.
While my appointed task is to stay here and fill the troughs
and sweep out the cave or wait upon the ungodly Cyclops at his
impious feasts is orders. Now compel obedience I have to

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scrape out his house with a rakeyou see?
So as to receive the Cyclops, myabsent master and his sheep in
clean Caverns. But already I see my children
driving their browsing clocks towards me.
What means this? This is the beat of feet in the
chemist dance. The same to you.
Now, as when we attended the packet, God in his revelries and

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made your way, with dainty stepsto that music of Lars to the
halls of Alfea, offspring of well, pray with the rules that
we gone from me to the Rocks. Hast thou, not hear a gentle
breeze and grass to browse and water from the 18 stream

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setting. He then profs and are not the
young ones bleeding for thee. Wilt thou not to browse here
here on the Dewey slope 0 are long.
Like I said, just don't be oh way, oh way, oh, way horn one to

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the fold Keeper of the Cyclops. The country, ranging Shepherd,
Lucinda bursting. Utter, welcome to itse the kids
who maybe believe it. First in the Lamkin spends those
little bleeding, kids asleep. The live long day, Missy will to
then leave class to the rich grass pastures on the peaks of

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Aetna. And enter, the hold here.
We have no, bro, me and God, no dances here or by contest Iris
arene. No roll of drums or drops of
sparkling wine by gurgling. Fasts, nor is it.
Now, with the nymphs, In nice. I sing a song of Bacchus,

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Bacchus to the queen of love in quest of whom.
I want that on with acontece white on foot, dear friend, dear
bocock God with our drawing alone, waving the Auburn locks.
While I thank you. Mister, do service to the
one-eyed. Cyclops Wanderer, I Collide and

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it is Richard goatskin, Russ. From my love has children and B
are servants for the flocks in the Rock.
Roofed Cavern chorus of sacher'sto servants away to Salinas, but
pretty why such haste. Father, I see the hull of a ship

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from helles at the shore and menthat will the or on their way to
this cave with some Chieftain about their next.
They carry empty vessels and pictures for water.
They are in want to And lucklessstrangers who can they be?
They know not what manner of man.
Our Master polyphemus is drift set foot here in his jealous
about and come to the jaws of the cannibal Cyclops in an evil

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hour. But old you your piece that we
may inquire whence they come to the peak of Sicilian, Edna,
pray, tell us sirs of some Riverspring, Wentz, who might draw a
draft to slake our thirst or of someone willing to sell vittles
to Mariners in need. Why?
What It is, this we seem to havechanced upon a city of the

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Brahman. God, here by the caves.
I see a group of sat ears to theeldest first.
I did all hail all hail sir. Tell me who Thou Art in Name by
country. Odysseus of Ithaca, King of the
cephalon Ian's land. I know him for a prating knave,
one of Sisyphus shrewd Offspring.

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I am the man who abused me, not Whence hast thou sailed here
though to Sicily from ilium and the toils of Troy.
How was that? Didst thou not know the passage
do that. Native land tempestuous winds
drove me hither against my will God word thou art in the same

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plight as I am. Why worked out to drifted hither
against thy will? I was, as I pursued the parrots
who carry bromios off. Portland is this and who are its
inhabitants? This is Mount Etna, the highest
point in Sicily, but where are the city walls and ramparts

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their own own? The Headlands sir are void of
men who then possesses the land,the race of wild creatures the
Cyclops who have caves, not, roofed houses, obedient unto
whom or is the power in the people's hands?
They are Rovers. No man obeys the Another in
anything today. So Demeter's grain or on what to

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they live on milk and cheese andflesh of sheep half-day the
drink abramius, the juice of thefine.
No, indeed in the cities of joyless learned.
They dwell in how they hospitable and referent towards
strangers, strangers? They say Supply the daintiest
meet. What did they Delight in?

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Killing men, and eating them. No one has ever arrived here
without being butchered. Where is the Cyclops himself
inside his dwelling? He is gone hunting while bees
with hounds on that NE just know.
Then, what to do that we may be gone from the land not I will
just use but I would do anythingfor the sell us food of which we

(01:09:17):
are in need, there's nothing butflourish as I said well even
that is a pleasant preventative of hunger and there is G's
curdled with fig juice and the milk of cows.
Kind bring them out a man shouldsee his purchases but tell me
how much gold wilt thou give me in exchange.

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No gold bring I am but dyonisos drink most welcome words I've
long been wanting that yes it was Marilyn the godson who gave
me a draft, what Marin whom one side, and old in these arms, the
son of the back chick God, that thou mayest.
Learn more certainly, is it The ship door has star it with the

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this as I've ceased is the skin that holds it old sir.
Why that would not give me so much as a mouthful this and
twice as much again as will run from the skin.
They're the real Bell speaker stuff.
Delicious to me, shall I? Like the taste the wine unmixed
to start with a reasonable offerfor over truth or taste and B

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the purchase? Well, I haul about a cup as well
as the skin gum loaded gurgle inthat.
I may revive my memory by a pooledit their then ye gods what a
delicious scent of has hot. Didst thou.
See it Noe Faith, but I smell it.

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Taste it. Then that I approve or may not
stop at words. Xun's.
Bacchus is inviting me to dance.Ha ha, did it?
Not Google? Finally.
And I throttle that it did to the ends of my fingers.
Well, we will get the money besides only undo the skin and

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never mind the money bring out the cheese then, and Lambs I
will do. So with small thought of any
Master for, let me have a singlecup of that, and I would turn
madman giving in exchange for it, the flocks of every Cyclops
and then throwing myself into the sea from the blue Katie and

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Robert. Rock once I have been well drunk
and smoothed out my wrinkled brow forever, man, Rejoice nod
and his drinking he is mad for in drinking there is love with
all its Frolic and dancing with all and Oblivion of whoa shall
now died then purchase. So rare, a drink bidding, the
senseless Cyclops and his Central I go, hang exhibit,

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Salinas Harkin Odysseus, let it all soak on.
With the well, do. So ours is a meeting of friends.
Did you take drawing and capturethe things Helen?
Hi, and we destroyed the whole family of prime after capturing
your Bloomin rise, we're all of you and turn her Lover's for she

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likes. The right hand, husband the
treacherous, the side of a man with embroidery stitches on his
legs. Excellent little husband.
There had never been a race of woman Born Into the world.
All from me alone, Salinas reappearing with food.

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No, I bring you folks food from the flocks King Odysseus.
The young of bleeding sheep and cheeses of curdled milk without
stint. Carry them away with you and be
gone from the cave at once. After giving me a drink of Mary
grape juice in it. Change.
Alack Yonder comes the Cyclops. What shall we do?

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Then surely we are lost old Sir with a must be fly inside.
This rock for their, you may conceal yourselves dangerous
advice of time to run into the net.
No danger. There are ways of escape and
plenty in the Rock. No, never that for surely, Troy

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will grown and loudly to if we flee from A single man when I
have offed withstood with my shield, a countless host of
phrygians, know if die, we must we would die a noble death or if
we live, we will maintain our old renowned at least with
credit light here. Hold is up.

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What is this? What means this?
I'd less your back eat. Gribble re here.
Have we know Dionysus nor Clash of brass nor roll of drums.
Pray how is it with my newly born Lambs in the caves?

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Are they at the teat running close to the side of their dams?
Is the full amount of milk whicheases milked out in baskets of
Russia's. Oh no, what see you.
One of you will soon be sheddingtears from the weight of my club

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look up, not down there. My head is good back till I see,
Zeus himself. I behold both of the stars and
Orion Here's my breakfast. Quite ready to Slade.
Be thy throat. Only ready for the balls to full

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of milk. I so the dog can still a whole
hog head. So it please thee sheep's, milk,
or cow's milk or a mixture of both.
Whichever thou Wilt don't followme.
That's all no soy. For you as start kicking in the

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pit of my stomach and kill me byyour antics catching sight of a
disease and his followers. What is this crowd?
I seen your the folds some Pirates or robbers have put in
here. Yes, I really see the lands from

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my caves tied up there with Twisted OHS ears cheese presses.
Masuda babe and old Salinas withhis bald Pate or swollen with
blows oh, poor wretch. That I am pounded to a fever boy

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whom who has been pounding, go ahead old Surah, these are the
culprits Cyclops or because I refuse to let them plunder the
geeky. Not know I was a God and Sprung
from God's. That was what I told them.

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But they persisted in plunderingtheir goods and in spite of my
efforts, they actually began to eat the cheese and carry off the
lamps and they said they would tie the in at 3, cubed pillory
and tear out thy bowels by force, as I navel, and Flay thy
back thoroughly with the scourge.
And then, after binding, the fling that carcass down among

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the benches of their ship to sell to someone for heaving up
stones or Let's throw the into amill.
Do indeed feel thin and sharp. My clear is that once he Pi the
faggots and like them for, they shall be slain forthwith and

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fill this more of mine. What time I pick my Feast hot
from the coals waiting, not for Carver's and fish up the rest
from the car. Aldrin, boiled, and Sutton for.
I have had my fill of Mountain fair and seated myself with

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Banquets of lions and Staggs, but his long I have been without
human flesh. Truly Master changed like this
is all the sweeter after every day, fair for just of late,
there have been no fresh arrivals of strangers.
At these caves here, the strangest to intern cyclops.

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If we had come near the cave from our ship wishing to procure
Provisions by purchase. When this fellow sold us the
Lambs and handed them over for asoup of wine to drink himself, a
voluntary act on both sides. There was no violence employed
at all. No there is not a particle of
Truth in the story. He tells now that he has been

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caught selling thy property behind thy back.
I radition catch the if I'm lying.
Yes. Oh, Cyclops by thy sire /, Son
by Mighty, Triton and nuria's byCalypso and the daughters of
Maria spout, the sacred Billows and all the race of vicious as
where did the most noble, sir? Dear little Cyclops Mastermind.

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It is not. I who sell their goods to
strangers else. Me these children, dearly as I
love them, come to an evil and keep that for thyself with my
own eyes. I saw the sell the goods to the
strangers, and if I lie Perdition catch.
My sire, but injured not only for my part.

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I put more faith in him than redimmense us to clearing him more
just but I have some questions to ask when sale G strangers
off. What country are you?
What? City was it?
Nursed? Your childhood We are it s by

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birth. And we have been driven from our
course, by The Winds of the Sea,on the way from ilium after
sacking, it's Citadel either, man who visited all helium that
border Athan scamander's. We've the rape of Helen worst of
women we are. That was the fearful labor.

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We endured sorry Expedition yours too.
Have sailed The land of phrygia for the sake of one woman.
It was a God's doing blame, not only son of man, but the do we
implore most noble, son of oceans.
God speaking as Freeborn men, benot so cruel as to slay, thy

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friends on their coming to that cave.
Nor regard us as food for thy jaws, and impious meal for we
preserve thy Sire. Oh, King in possession of his
Temple seats. Deep in the Nooks.
Of helis and the sacred Port of tine Iris and mallya's furthers.
Coves remain unharmed and Son eum's Rock the silver vein.

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Sacred tooth. Eastbourne Athena still is safe,
and Christ has the harbor of refuge, and we did not permit
phrygians to put such an intolerable reproach on helis.
Now, in these things now to has to share with our dwellest in a
corner of the land of helles beneath that misfire streaming
Rock. And although Turn from arguments

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still. It is a custom amongst mortal
men to receive Shipwrecked Sailors as their suppliants and
show them hospitality and help them with.
Raiment, not that these should fill those jaws and belly.
Their limbs transfixed with spits for piercing.
Ox Flash, the land of Priam halfemptied helles, quite enough
drinking, the blood of many, whom the spear laid, low with

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the ruin. It has brought on widowed wives
on aged, childless Dame's. Yes, and hoary head its size.
And if thou roast and consume The Remnant a meal that will
true. Why, where shall one turn?
No, be persuaded by me. Cyclops for go, thy, ravenous
greed, and choose piety, rather,than wickedness.

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For on many, a man are now, unrighteous gains have brought
down retribution. I will give thee a word of
advice as for his flesh. Leave not a morsel of it, and if
they're eat his tongue, Cyclops that will become a monstrous.
Clever talker wealth mannequin, is the god for the wise.

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All else is mere, born Ting and fine words.
Please. Take the Headlands by the Sea on
which my father seats himself. Why ask though put forward these
arguments I shudder not as uses thunder.
No no. I wearing Zeus is a mightier got

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that icer stranger. What is more?
I reckon or of him. My reasons here.
When he Pours Down The Rain fromabove here in this rock, in
quarters snug, feasting on roastcarbs, flesh or some wild game

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and moistening. Well, my upturned punch with
deep drafts through it. Of a milk.
I rival. The thunderclaps of Zeus with my
artillery and when The North Wind Blows from three steps and
sheddeth snow. I wrapped my carcass in the

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hides of beasts and lighter, fire.
And what care? I for snow the Earth perforce,
whether she likes it or not produces grass, and fans my
floor. Ox, which I sacrificed a no one
save myself and this belly the greatest of deity's.

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But to the God's Not, I for Shirley to eat and drink ones
Phil from day to day and give oneself.
No grief at all. This is the king of Gods for
your wise, man. But lawgivers go.
Hang checkering as They do the life of man.

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And so I will not cease from indulging Myself by devouring
thee and thou shalt receive thisstrangest.
Gift that I may be free of blamefire, and my father's element
Yonder and a cauldron to hold thy flesh and boil.

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It nicely in call UPS, So in with you that ye may feasts me
well, standing around the altar to honor the caverns gold and
turns his cave, alas escaped from the Troubles of try.
And the see my buck now strands upon the whim and forbidding

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heart of this Savage. Oh Palace mistress, mine
goddess. Daughter of Zeus help me, help
me. Now, for I am come to toils and
depths of peril worse than All Little Liam and thou o Zeus, the
strangest God who has that dwelling mid?
The radiant Stars, behold these things for if thou regard them,

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not in vain Thou Art esteemed the great God Zeus though.
But a thing of not follows the Cyclops reluctantly oppa.
Why the portal of I gaping throat?
Cyclops, first Ranger limbs. Both Borland and grilled are
ready from off of holes Vietnam.And Hair and makeup.

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Stop Mall. Reclining by Shaggy go.
Skin coat. Relinquished a meal for me.
Keep that boat for thyself aloneof on this cave offering which
the Godless Cyclops offers on edges, Alters, exulting in meals
on Strangers, flesh. Oh, ruthless monster to

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sacrifice his guests at his own Hearth.
The suppliant of his whole cleaning and tearing and Irving.
Up to low some teeth of a feast of human flesh.
Hot from the coals Odysseys, reappearing, with a look of
horror. How is Hughes, what can I say
after the Hideous sites? I've seen inside the cave.

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Things past belief resembling more the Tails men.
Tell the naught they do what news Odysseus has a cyclops.
Most Godless monster and feasting on by dear comrades,
Hi. He singled out a pair on whom
the flesh was fattest and in best condition and took them up

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in his hand to way. How when did with you then for a
rush when we had entered Yonder.Rocky Abode he lighted.
First a fire throwing logs of towering Oak upon his spacious
Hearth enough for three wagons to carry as their load next
close by the Blazing flame. He placed his couch of pine,

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boughs laid upon the floor and filled Bowl of some 10 Firkins
pouring white milk there into after he had milked his kind and
by his side he put a can of IV wood, whose breath was three
cubits and its depth for maybe next he set Upon A Brazen
Potter, boiling on the fire spits to, he sat beside him

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fashioned of the branches of thorn their points.
Hardened in the fire and the rest of them trimmed with the
hatchet and a blood bowls of Aetna, for the axes out.
Age. Now when the hell cook God
detested at everything. Quite ready?
He caught up a pair of my companions and proceeded
deliberately to cut the throat of one of them over the yawning

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Brazen pot but the other he clutched by the tendon of his
heel and striking him against a sharp point of Rocky Stone,
dashed out his brains, then after hacking the fleshy Parts,
with Glutton Cleaver, he's set to grilling them.
But the limbs he threw into His cauldron to cease.
And I poor wretch Drew near withstreaming eyes and waited on the

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Cyclops. But the others kept carrying
like frightened birds in crannies of The Rock and the
blood, forsook their skin. And on when he had gorged
himself upon my comrades, flesh and had fallen on his back
Breathing heavily, there came a sudden inspiration to me.
I filled a cup of this moroney and wine and offered him a draft

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saying Cyclops son of ocean scarred.
See here, what? Heavenly drink, The Grapes of
helles yield. Glad gift of Dionysus.
He glutted with his Shameless meal took and drained it at one
draft and lifting up his hand. He thanked me.
Thus dearest to me of all my guests Fair.

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The drink thou. Give us me to Crown.
So, fair, a feast. Now, when I saw his Delight, I
gave him another cup. Knowing the wine would make him.
It and he would soon be paying the penalty.
Then he set to singing but I kept filling bumper after bumper
and heating him with drink. So there he is singing

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discordantly amid, the Weeping of my fellow Sailors and the
cave Rico's, but I have made my way out quietly and would Fain
safety and myself. If thou Wilt tell me, then is it
your wish? Or is it not to fly from this
unsocial wretch. And take up your Abode with
nayad nymphs in the halls of theback.

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God my father within a proves this scheme but there he is
powerless, getting all he can out of his liquor.
His wings are snared by the cup as if he had flown against
birdlime and he is fuddled, but Thou Art, young and Lusty.
So, save thyself with my help and regained, I old friend

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Dionysus. So little like the Cyclops Best
of friends, would we might see that days escaping the god, the
Cyclops Fort is long, we have been without the joys of men,
unable to escape him here. Then how I will requite this
file monster and rescue you fromthraldom.

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Tell me how no note of Asiatic liar.
Delighted with this liquor of the back chick God, he Fain
would go a reviling with his Brethren.
I understand my purpose is to seize and say give me or not at

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all. My plan is fraught with
subtlety. What do then truly we have long
heard of like loudness. I mean to keep him from this
Revel saying he must not give this drink to his Brethren but
keep it for himself alone. Loan and lead a happy life.
Then when he falls asleep or Mastered by the back, God I will

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put a point with the sword of mine to an olive branch.
I saw lying in the cave and we'll set it on fire when I see
it. Well alight, I will lift the
heated brand and thrusting it full in the Cyclops.
I melt out his site with its blaze it has when a man in
fitting the Timbers of a ship makes his August spin to and fro

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with a double strap. So will I make the brand revolve
in the eye that gives the cyclops light and will Scorch up
the pupil there of? Oh how glad I feel wild with joy
at the contrivance that done, I will Embark the, and those thou
lovest withhold Salinas in the Deep, hold of my black ship, my

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ship with double Banks of oars and carry you away from this
land. Well, can I lay hold of?
The blinding brand as though theGods like Nation had been poured
for, I would Fain have a share in this offering of blood and
teeth. I must for the brand is large
and I must help hold it. How lightly, where I live the

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load of unitard Wayne's. If that would help us drop out
the eye of the Doom Cyclops, like wasps nest, hush for now,
thou knowest. My plot in full.
And when I beat you about the author of it for, I'm not the
man to die. Desert my friends inside the
cave and save myself alone. And yet I might Escape, I'm

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clear of the cavern steps already, but no to dessert, the
friends with whom. I journeyed hither and only
saved myself is not a righteous course.
Re-enters de Cave, come who willbe the first and who the next to
him? Upon the list to grip, the hand,
over the brand and thrusting it into the Cyclops eye, gouge out

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the light thereof. Hush Hush.
Behold the drunkard leaves, his Rocky home, trolling loud, some
hideous, lay her clumsy tuneless, clown, whom tears,
await come. Let us give this bore a lesson
and revelry are long. Will he be blind at any rate?

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Happy, he who plays the bacchanal amid.
The pressure streams distilled from grapes stretched at full
length for a rebel his arm around a friend he loves and
Some Fair dainty damsel on his couch, his hair perfume with
nard and glossy, but while he calls oh, who will open up the
door for me full of wine and Mary with the feasts?

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Good cheer. And boy my whole freighted like
a merchant ship up to my belly'svery top.
This Turf graciously, invites meto seek my brother's Cyclops for
a revel. In the spring tide, comes

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stranger, bring the wine. Skin is either and hand it over
to me forth from the house. It's fair.
Lord comes casting. His fair glance round him.
We have someone to befriend us ahostile brand is awaiting the
note. Under bright and Dewey, Grant no

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single color. Will those Garland's have that
soon, shall cling? So close about thy brow o DC's
returning with the wind skin Harkin Cyclops for?
I am well versed in the ways of practice whom I have given thee
to drink and who is this back us, some reputed gold, the

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greatest god man. No to cheer their life.
I like it. Is aftertaste at any rate.
This is the kind of God hears heheartmath, no, man, how does a
god-like being housed in a wineskin, what him where one may
he is content. There it is, not right, that God

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should be clad in leather. What about that?
Provided he pleased thee. Doth the leather hurt thee.
Oh yeah, the wine skin. But the liquor we have Here, I
love. Stay then, Cyclops drink and be.
Merry must I not give my brethren a share in this liquor.

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No, keep it thyself and thou Wilt appear of more honor.
Give it my friends and I shall appear of more use reveling is
apt to end in blows abuse and strife.
I may be drunk but no man will They hands on me for all that

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better. Stay at home my friend after a
carew's who loves not reveling then is but a simple turn but
whoso stays at home when drunk is wise.
What should we do? So Lena's aren't mind you to
stay but I am for, what? Need?

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Have we of others to share our drink cyclops.
Well, truly the turf is softest down with its fresh flowering.
Plants Salinas seating himself. I an't is Pleasant drinking in
the warm sunshine. Come, let me see the stretch

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that carcass on the ground Cyclops sitting down there.
Then, why are they putting the mixing bowl behind me?
That no one passing by may come upon it.
Hey, but the only purpose is to drink up on the slide, set it

(01:36:43):
between us To a disease. Now, tell me stranger, I won't
name to call the no, man. What bun shall?
I receive a fee to earn. My thanks, I will Feast on the
last after all, thy comrades. Fair indeed.

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The honour thou bestow a stone that guest sir Cyclops Cyclops
turning suddenly to Salinas Sarah.
Taking a stealthy. Pull up the wine.
Nobody kissed me for my good looks Thou shalt smart if they

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kiss the wine, when it kisses, not thee o but it did for it
says, it is in love with my handsome face Cyclops holding
out his cup pour in, only give me my cup for Hmm.
How is it mixed? Just let me make sure takes

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another pull Perdition. Give it me at once.
Oh no, I really cannot till I see the with a crown on and have
another taste myself. No, wake up.
There is a cheat. No.
Really. But the wine is so luscious thou
must wipe thy lips though to geta draft their my lip Oops, and

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beard a clean. Now then I'm elbow gracefully
and then quaff back up. As thou, seest me do.
And as now thou, seest me not burying his face in his cup.
Next I drank it off at a draft with much pleasure.
Stranger, take the skin nice self and be my cupbearer.

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Well, at any rate the grape is no stranger to my And come pour
it in in it goes, keep silence. That is all difficult task.
When a man is deep in his cups here, take and drink it off.
Leave none that must be silent and only give in when the liquor

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does Gold War. Is it clever, stop that bears.
The grape. I and if thou, but swallow,
plenty of it. After a plentiful meal
moistening thy belly till its thirst is gone, it will throw
the into Slumber, but if they'llleave ought behind the back to

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God, will patch the for it. What a trouble it was getting
out. This is pleasure unalloyed
Earth. Earth and Sky seem whirling
around together. I see the Throne of Zeus and all

(01:39:47):
the gods. Heads Majesty, kiss thee.
Know there are The Graces tryingto tempt me.
I shall rest well enough with myGanymede hear ye Boi the grace
is Right, fairly Cyclops Mi Ganymede is Zeus's minion.

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Cyclops attempting to carry him into the cave.
So we sure Ganymede who I am carrying off from those of
dodging us. I am undone my children
outrageous treatment weights me does find fault with I lover
just score him in his cops. Woe is me most bitter?

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Shall I find the wine are long? Exit Salinas dragged Away by
Cyclops up. Now, children of dialysis sons
of our Noble, sire soon will yawn creature in the cave
relaxed in Slumbers you see him spew from his Shameless more,
the meat already, the brand inside his lair, his vomiting a

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cloud of smoke and the only reason we prepared it was to
burn the cyclops's eye. So mind thou, quit the like a
man. I will have a spirit Rock or
Autobot but go inside for my father suffers in shameful
treatment for hear thou Hast things ready.
Oh, heh, phaistos, Lord of Eichner rid myself for once and

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all of a Troublesome neighbor byburning, his bright eye out,
come sleep as well. Offspring of sable night, come
with all thy power on the monster got detested.
And never after Troy's, most glorious, toils destroyed, Issa,
a.s. and his Crew by the hands of one, who reckon?
If not of God, or man else must,we reckon chance of goddess and

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Heavens will inferior to hers, or disease.
Re-enters the cave. Tightly the pincers, shall rip
the neck of him visa for his guests for soon.
He will lose the light of his eye by fire already, the brand
or trees, huge living room looked amid.
The Embers chard. Oh, come here.

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You then, and work his Doom, pluck out the Madden, Cyclops
eye, that he Nuru his drinking, and I too feii would leave the
Cyclops. Lonely Land and Sea King romy's
IV. Crowned the god, I saw in this,
ah, shall I ever come to that? Oh, DC's leaving the cave

(01:42:31):
cautiously silent. See cattle.
I assure you close your lips. Make not a sound, are not let a
man of you so much as breathe orwink or clear his throat that
Ian pest awake, not until the site in the cyclops's eye.
Has passed through the fiery ordeal, silent.

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We stand with bated, breath in then and mind your fingers grip.
The brand for it is splendid. Idli red-hot.
They saw for day, who first mustseize.
The Blazing bar and burn Cyclopsstanding where I am before the
door. I am too far off to thrust.

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The fire into his eye. I have just gone lame.
Why then Thou Art in the same plight as I for somehow or
other. I sprained my ankle standing
still sprained, my ankle standing still.
Yes. And my eyes are full of dust or
ashes from somewhere or other. These are sorry fellows

(01:43:35):
worthless as allies because I feel for my back and spine and
express, no. Wish to have my teeth knocked
out. I like our damn.
I well, but I know a spell of Orpheus, a most excellent one to
make the bread into his skull ofits own accord and set alight.
The one I saw the Earth long since I knew that our work by

(01:43:57):
nature such A1. And now I know it better.
I must employ my own friends, but though thou bring no active
Aid cheer us on at any rate thatI may find my friends emboldened
by thy encouragement exodor disease, that will I do the
carrying shall run the risk for us and as far as encouragement

(01:44:20):
goes. Let's a cyclops.
What? Ho?
My God stress away, make haste and burn.
Roll off the Monsters, Just devouring Ojos engine Scorch.
The Shepherd of that. Now, twirl the brand and drag it
around Cyclops. Bellowing in the cave.

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My once bright, I is burnt to Cinders now.
Sweet and dear, the Triumph song, praising it to us.
So I go Ops Cyclops from within once more.
Whatever your man what ruin? But never show you sleep, this

(01:45:13):
rookie Keven punished. He worthless creatures for, I
will stand in the entrance of the cleft and fit my hands into
it. Like us staggering to the
entrance. Why does that surprise indeed a

(01:45:34):
sorry sight at 12? It's to fall among the coldest
drunken fit. No man has undone me then there
is no one hurting the after all no man has blinded me then art
thou not blind explained as their forces How pretty quick

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but no man have made the blind focused me.
But where is this? No man know where Cyclops?
It was the stranger vile. Wretch who proved my ruin that
they misunderstand rightly by swimming me with the Vickery

(01:46:22):
gave me. Ah, why is it terrible foe hard
to Russia? So with tell me I add you, the
happiest Kate to. Are they still with in here?
They are arranged in silence taking the rock.
Thus freeing them only side on the right.

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We're closed against, God has caused trouble on trouble.
Oh yeah. Run my skull against the rocks,
and cracked it. I and they Escaping the this
way. Was it?
No, it was this way. There's a is test.

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No, not this way which then theyare getting round.
The on the left I am be more each year at me and my evil
plate. They are no longer there but
basically that's strangest and most have been anywhere.

(01:47:27):
Oh, Where are they? How some way from the?
I'm keeping careful guard. Over the person of Odysseus.
Want a new name as change the sign.
Yes. But this is the name my father
gave me but there were doomed topay for thy Unholy Feast for.

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I should have seen tried burned too but sorry purpose.
Unless I had Avenged on the the slaughter of my comrades.
Woe is me tis. An old Oracle coming true?
Yes, it said. I should have my I put out by
thee on the way home from Troy but it likewise foretold that

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there would surely pay for this sourcing on the sea.
For many a day go hang in as I say.
So have I done now, will I get me to the beach?
And start my Hollow ship across the sea of Sicily, to the land
of my father's, Thou shalt not. I will break up the boulder off

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this rock and crush the crew andall beneath Maestro blind.
Now, I be, I will climb the hillmounting through yonder tunnel
as for us henceforth, will we beServants of Bacchus?
The Voyage of this hero Odysseus.

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End of the Cyclops by Europe, adiz translated, by Edward
Coleridge. End of the Cyclops by Europe,
adiz translated, by Edward Coleridge.

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