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A SHIRK'S TOAST

Madame, a toast you ask? I feel like quoting
“Sir, the Toast be ‘Dear Woman,’” for verily I can not do it.

You know what the Shirk said to the Laggard, “Do not thou entreat me, seeing that the thing you ask is both difficult and impossible.

“Find Some Other Victim.”

Believe me full of grief because of an empty head.