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The Playboy of the

of your limbs to-night." "You will not if I can help it," says I.

He sits up brandishing his mug.

SARA.

You were right surely.

CHRISTY, impressively.

With that the sun came out between the cloud and the hill, and it shining green in my face. "God have mercy on your soul," says he, lifting a scythe. "Or on your own," says I, raising the loy.

SUSAN.

That's a grand story.

HONOR.

He tells it lovely.

CHRISTY, flattered and confident, waving bone.

He gave a drive with the scythe, and I gave a lep to the east. Then I turned around with my back to the north, and I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull, laid him stretched out, and he split to the knob of his gullet.

He raises the chicken bone to his Adam's apple.

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