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Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
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CAPITULUM VI
I think, said Leila, as her frantic dripping-pan
release my frizzling sausage, done to a turn, that
we shall restore your despondent tickle-gizzard to a
better condition if we look on a bit at the Archbishop,
and his games. Surely he is asleep after such a
night with the camel, I objected, for it was now
morning, the expert melting-pot of the hot-arsed
hogoninny having kept my metal at the point all
night without ever giving it a chance to run
over. Not he ! She sneered. He is now with his
Venerable Aunt, as he calls her, a lascivious old
woman if ever there was one ! A very gobble-
prick ! A brimstone bunter ! But come ! You shall
see them.
We strolled into the next room, where the grey-
haired old foreskin-hunter was in the very act of
swallowing the large and luscious semolina pud-
ding that trickled from the recently frigged whore-
pipe of her nephew.
Two active boys were engaged in stuffing her
lucky-bag with current numbers of the Daily M...,
as I observed with satisfaction, guessing at last the
secret of our enormous circulation.
When the supply of these was done, they con-
tinued with the Sunday S....d and that peculiarly
foul organ, Good W...s.
This was her chief pleasure, since she had
sought this temporary retirement from the whirl of
politics. Licking her loose and wrinkled lips, she
spat the glutinous relics of her nephews emission
into the face of her last lover, a Scotch missionary
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