Chapter 19 of 41 · 57 words · ~1 min read

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Run!--run for St. Clement’s engine! For the Pawnbroker’s all in a blaze, And the pledges are frying and singing-- Oh! how the poor pawners will craze! Now where can the turncock be drinking? Was there ever so thirsty an elf?-- But he still may tope on, for I’m thinking That the plugs are as dry as himself.