Sis! Letsee. Seeyews. All see, saw together. Hers? Saw hymn so and sole. His? Sister, cease. Kindly turn anew leaves thinling over, lisperingly.
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Leave sis to cease. Spake us sooth, folly volanty! Rustle low, now! Were you there? Where who were?

Where you there, holly and ivy, where you there when he? Gan you climb yon creeper's wall? Cling to it, mantle him, when fall the leaves then yule remember. Were you in your ^|1prickly prickling^1| hedges, redcoat robins, roundface chumberries? Were you hid in eyeful hollow by hollow deeping down deeping lane? Answer by your numbers, one to three. ^|1Number one.^1|

^|1Haze! Hiss!^{1| |1}Which^1| We had only a hazelight to see with ^|1|afrom in^a| our point of view^1| — sin with — me and my auxy, Jimmy Darcy, hadn't we, jimmy? — ^|1Who^1| sinned with. ^|1Kiss!^1| No kidding, he stood us good ^|1as before^1| mountjoys and nutty woodbines, ^|1|aand ^|bin the ^|csnug of^c| Cambridge Arms ^|csnuggery^c|b| which^a| he said ^|ahis standpoint was ^|bto blucher him^b|a| he had no class ^|aat all being a refugee,^a| in ^|agood port and cemented^a| palships,^1| didn't he, jimmy? — ^|1Who^1| joybought pains. Sish! Honeysuckler, that's what my young lady here, that's
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Fred Watkins all the way from old Natal calls him, when he puts his certain question ^|1— what was it, jimmy? —^{1| |1}have you many^1| sinnerettes to declare? Phiss! Touching our phoenix rangers ^|1nuisance^1|, were they forgiving up his ^|1fogging^1| trespasses, as we ^|1gathered foregathered^1| he was ^|1raw^1| in sugar, the party ^|1jimmy, no?^1| — tristesse against me. Briss! That's him ^|1achewing ^|aof^a| his gummy tempting gum^{1| |1}Mr Mista^1| Beardall, a ^|1accompliced^1| burgomaster, who ^|1said he told us privates ^|aout of his own ^|bscented^b| mouth^a|1| he used to was, ^|1before this Wine act ^|acame come^a|,^1| what say, our jimmy? — fear ^|1allmaster all masters^1|. Spiss! Hi, Jocko, she says, my fred, let's spy on honeysuckler after His Corkiness ^|1paid lay^1| down ^|1three 2^1| bottles of joy ^|1including a shandy had by Fred,^1| and a fino oloroso he was having, that right, jimmy ^|1boy^1|? — dolorosus, dolor meus.

Following idly ^|1just at dewpoint^1|, what did you see? Holymerry, iveysad, were you there? ^|1|aWas it snow, snow and snow? Or did ^|bit fall^b| rain ^|bspill^b|.^a| Or a mean amount of cloud?^1| Mizpah low ^|1number one, in deep humidity^1|. There's noel ^|1like him^1| here to hear. Tris! Only trees, such as these, such as those waving there, the Barketree, the O'Briertree, the Rowantree, the O'Corneltree, the Behanbush of Windy
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Arbour, the Magill O'Dendron More. Trem! All the trees in the wood that trembold, humbild, when they heard the stop press from Domday's Erewold.