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XI

⸺⁠No; I shall never have a finger in the pye (so here I break my metaphor)⁠⸺⁠

Crust and Crumb

Inside and out

Top and bottom⁠⸺⁠I detest it, I hate it, I repudiate it⁠⸺⁠I’m sick at the sight of it⁠⸺⁠

’Tis all pepper,

garlick,

staragen,

salt, and

devil’s dung⁠⸺⁠by the great arch-cook of cooks, who does nothing, I think, from morning to night, but sit down by the fireside and invent inflammatory dishes for us, I would not touch it for the world⁠⸺⁠

⸺⁠ O Tristram! Tristram! cried Jenny .

O Jenny! Jenny! replied I, and so went on with the twelfth chapter.

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