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( Stop!  There was first a game of blindman's buff.  Of course )
( there was.                                                   )
( And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe )
( he had eyes                                                  )
( in his boots.  My opinion is, that it was a done thing       )
( between him and                                              )
( Scrooge's nephew; and that the Ghost of Christmas Present    )
( knew it.  The                                                )
( way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was  )
( an outrage                                                   )
( on the credulity of human nature.                            )
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