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Edinburgh Street Tramp Tales and a Warship Wager
A fragmenting dialogue features Jack reciting a faulty sentence about a ship and a conflagration, a wary officer, and a bustling Edinburgh street scene. The piece shifts to a beggar’s tale of work, a child’s mispronounced line about banny-tah, a skeptical mother, and a philanthropist offering jobs to the downtrodden, interlaced with wry exchanges about regimens, prisons, and economic quirks.
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