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'He were a foreigner Jevanny he called hisself and he come a-tweaking his 'urdy-gurdy round and about the drive one winter day, and master 'ad him in that minute, and ast all about where he came from, and how old he was, and how he made his way, and where was his relatives, and all as kind as heart could wish. But it went the same way with him.
The first gent that rode him found himself dancing a quadrille in Hupper Brook Street to an 'urdy-gurdy that was playing 'Cherry Ripe, such is the natur of the hanimal. And if you reklect the play of the 'Battle of Hoysterlitz, in which Mrs.
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?"
They're a hunruly lot, them foreign nations, I do suppose, and he was off one fine morning just the same as the girl. Why he went and what he done was our question for as much as a year after; for he never took his 'urdy-gurdy, and there it lays on the shelf.
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