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LOVE AMONG THE CHICKENS


'ead off with a blunderbuss! Ow that one so fair could be so false!

Master Thomas Riggetts (the page boy, whose passion for the lady who has just become Mrs. Garnet has for many months been a byword in the servants' hall). Huh! (To himself bitterly.) Tike care, tike care, lest some day you drive me too far. [Is left brooding darkly.

UPSTAIRS

The Bride. …Thank you.…Oh, thank you.…Thank you so much.…Thank you so much…oh, thank you.…Thank you.…Thank you so much.
The Bridegroom. Thanks.…Oh, thanks.…Thanks awf'lly.…Thanks awf'lly.…Thanks awf'lly.…Oh, thanks awf'lly…(with a brilliant burst of invention, amounting almost to genius) Thanks frightfully.

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