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He proceeded two steps down the companion; then hurled this parting shot at the offending mate: "You oughter be 'ead of a laundry where the 'andle of the mangle turns a pianer-horgan as well work and play!" he concluded scornfully, as he disappeared from the musician's sight below. The mate whistled softly; then he stopped the offending instrument and conveyed it below.
His mate, less superstitious and with more common sense, rejoined: "Garn! 'Music o' the spears' be blowed! It's more like a pianer-horgan or a 'urdy-gurdy." The shrimper glided on, and a tramp steamer, going dead slow, just shaved past the musical barge. Its master roared derisively from the bridge: "'Ullo, barge, ahoy! Wot yer got there? Punch and Judy show aboard?"
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