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[Assistant] Who was lying down contentedly against the dissel boom, chewing the cud with a good conscience. Presently however, Captain began to get restless. First he snorted, then he got up and snorted again.


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[Assistant] And saw something yellow flash past me and light on poor Captain.


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[Assistant] Then came a bellow of agony from the ox and a crunch as the lion put his teeth through the poor brute's neck and I began to understand what had happened. My rifle was in the wagon.


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[Assistant] And my first thought being to get hold of it, I turned and made a bolt for the box.


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[Assistant] I got my foot up on the wheel and flung my body forward onto the wagon and there I stopped as if I were frozen. And no wonder.


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[Assistant] For as I was about to spring up I heard the lion behind me. And next second I felt the brute. Aye, as plainly as I can feel this table.


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[Assistant] I felt him, I say, sniffing at my left leg that was hanging down.


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[Assistant] My word, I did feel queer. I don't think that I ever felt so queer before. I dared not move for the life of me.


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[Assistant] And the odd thing was that I seemed to lose power over my leg.


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[Assistant] Which developed an insane sort of inclination to kick out of its own mere motion.


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[Assistant] Just as hysterical people want to laugh when they ought to be particularly solemn.


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[Assistant] Well the lion sniffed and sniffed, beginning at my ankle and slowly nosing away up to my thigh. I thought that he was going to get hold then, but he did not.


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[Assistant] He only growled softly and went back to the ox. Shifting my head a little, I got a full view of him. He was about the biggest lion I ever saw, and I have seen a great many. And he had a most tremendous black mane.


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[Assistant] What his teeth were like, you can see. Look there. Pretty big ones, ain't they? Altogether, he was a magnificent animal.


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[Assistant] And deliberately disemboweled him as neatly as a butcher could have done. All this while I dared not move.


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[Assistant] For he kept lifting his head and keeping an eye on me as he licked his bloody chops.


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[Assistant] When he had cleaned Captain out, he opened his mouth and roared,


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[Assistant] And I am not exaggerating when I say that the sound shook the wagon. Instantly there came back an answering roar.


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[Assistant] Hardly was the thought out of my head when I caught sight in the moonlight of the lioness bounding along through the long grass, and after her a couple of cubs about the size of mastiffs


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[Assistant] She stopped within a few feet of my head and stood, waved her tail, and fixed me with her glowing yellow eyes.


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[Assistant] But just as I thought that it was all over, she turned and began to feed on Captame. And so did the cubs. There were the four of them within eight feet of me, growling and quarreling


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[Assistant] Rending and tearing and crunching poor Captain's bones.


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[Assistant] And there I lay shaking with terror and the cold perspiration pouring out of me.


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[Assistant] Feeling like another Daniel come to judgment in a new sense of the phrase.


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[Assistant] Presently the cubs had eaten their fill and began to get restless.


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[Assistant] One went round to the back of the wagon and pulled at the impala buck that hung there.


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[Assistant] And the other came round my way and commenced a sniffing game at my leg. Indeed he did more than that, for my trouser being hitched up a little.


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[Assistant] He began to lick the bare skin with his rough tongue.


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[Assistant] The more he licked, the more he liked it, to judge from his increased vigor in the loud purring noise he made. Then I knew that the end had come. For in another second,


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[Assistant] His file-like tongue would have rasped through the skin of my leg, which was luckily pretty tough, and have drawn the blood. And then there would be no chance for me.


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[Assistant] So I just lay there and thought of my sins and prayed to the Almighty and reflected that after all, life was a very enjoyable thing.


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[Assistant] Then of a sudden I heard a crashing of bushes and the shouting and whistling of men, and there were the two boys coming back with the cattle, which they had found trekking along altogether. The lions lifted their heads and listened, then bounded off without a sound, and I fainted.


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[Assistant] But I was full of wrath when I thought of all that I had gone through at the hands, or rather noses, of those four brutes.


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[Assistant] And of the fate of my after-ox, Captain.


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[Assistant] That like a fool I determined to attack the whole family of them.


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[Assistant] And having armed myself with an ordinary double number 12 smoothbore, the first breech loader I ever had, I started.


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[Assistant] I took the smoothbore because it shot a bullet very well.


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[Assistant] And my experience has been that a round ball from a smooth bore is quite as effective against a lion as an express bullet. The lion is soft


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[Assistant] And not a difficult animal to finish if you hit him anywhere in the body. A buck takes far more killing.


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[Assistant] Well, I started, and the first thing I set to work to do


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[Assistant] Was to try to discover whereabouts the brutes lay up for the day.


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[Assistant] About 300 yards from the wagon was the crest of a rise covered with single mimosa trees, dotted about in a park-like fashion, and beyond this lay a stretch of open plain running down to a dry pan or waterhole


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[Assistant] Which covered about an acre of ground and was densely clothed with reeds, now in the sear and yellow leaf.


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[Assistant] From the further edge of this pan, the ground sloped up again to a great cleft, Manula.


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[Assistant] Which had been cut out by the action of the water And was pretty thickly sprinkled with bush Amongst which grew some large trees I forget of what sort


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[Assistant] It at once struck me that the dry pan would be a likely place to find my friends in, as there is nothing a lion is fonder of than lying up in reeds through which he can see things without being seen himself. Accordingly, thither I went and prospected.


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[Assistant] Before I had got halfway round the pan, I found the remains of a blue wildebeest that had evidently been killed within the last three or four days, and partially devoured by lions, and from other indications about


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[Assistant] I was soon assured that if the family were not in the pan that day, they spent a good deal of their spare time there. But if there, the question was how to get them out.


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[Assistant] For it was clearly impossible to think of going in after them.


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[Assistant] Unless one was quite determined to commit suicide.


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[Assistant] Now there was a strong wind blowing from the direction of the wagon.


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[Assistant] Across the reedy pan, towards the bush clad cloof or dunga.


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[Assistant] And this first gave me the idea of firing the reeds, which as I think I told you were pretty dry.


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[Assistant] Accordingly, Tom took some matches and began starting little fires to the left, and I did the same to the right. But the reeds were still green at the bottom.


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[Assistant] And we should never have got them well alight had it not been for the wind, which grew stronger and stronger as the sun climbed higher, and forced the fire into them.


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[Assistant] At last, after half an hour's trouble, the flames got a hold and began to spread out like a fan.


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[Assistant] Scarcely had I got round when I heard the reeds parting before the onward rush of some animal. Now for it, said I. On it came. I could see that it was yellow and prepared for action.


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[Assistant] When instead of a lion outbounded a beautiful reeked buck, which had been lying in the shelter of the pan.


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[Assistant] It must, by the way, have been a reek block of a peculiarly confiding nature to lay itself down with the lion, like the lamb of prophecy.


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[Assistant] But I suppose the reeds were thick and that kept it a long way off.


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[Assistant] Well I let the reek bak go and it went like the wind and kept my eyes fixed upon the reeds. The fire was burning like a furnace now.


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[Assistant] The flames crackling and roaring as they bit into the reeds.


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[Assistant] Sending spouts of fire twenty feet and more into the air.


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[Assistant] And making the hot air dance above in a way that was perfectly dazzling.


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[Assistant] But the reeds were still half green and created an enormous quantity of smoke.


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[Assistant] Which came rolling towards me like a curtain, lying very low on account of the wind.


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[Assistant] Presently, above the crackling of the fire, I heard a startled roar, then another, and another. So the lions were at home.


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[Assistant] There is nothing in experience to warm up your nerves like a lion at close quarters unless it is a wounded buffalo. And I became still more so


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[Assistant] When I made out through the smoke that the lions were all moving about on the extreme edge of the reeds.


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[Assistant] Occasionally they would pop their heads out like rabbits from a burrow.


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[Assistant] And then catching sight of me standing about 50 yards away, draw them back again. I knew that it must be getting pretty warm behind them, and that they could not keep the game up for long, and I was not mistaken.


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[Assistant] For suddenly all four of them broke cover together. The old black-maned lion leading by a few yards.


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[Assistant] I never saw a more splendid sight in all my hunting experience than those four lions bounding across the veldt, overshadowed by the dense pall of smoke and backed by the fiery furnace of the burning reeds.


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[Assistant] I reckoned that they would pass on their way to the bushy cloof within about five and twenty yards of me.


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[Assistant] So taking a long breath, I got my gun well onto the lion's shoulder, the black main one, so as to allow for an inch or two of motion and catch him through the heart. I was on, dead on, and my finger was just beginning to tighten on the trigger when suddenly I went blind.


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[Assistant] A bit of reed ash had drifted into my right eye.


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[Assistant] I danced and rubbed, and succeeding in clearing it more or less, just in time to see the tale of the last lion vanishing round the bushes up the cloof.


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[Assistant] If ever a man was mad, I was that man. It was too bad, and such a shot in the open. However, I was not going to be beaten, so I just turned and marched for the cluef. Tom, the driver, begged and implored me not to go.


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[Assistant] But though as a general rule I never pretend to be very brave, which I am not,


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[Assistant] I was determined that I would either kill those lions or they should kill me.


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[Assistant] So I told Tom that he need not come unless he liked, but I was going.


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[Assistant] And being a plucky fellow, a Swazid by birth, he shrugged his shoulders, muttered that I was mad or bewitched, and followed doggedly in my tracks.


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[Assistant] Which was about 300 yards in length and but sparsely wooded. And then the real fun began. There might be a lion behind every bush. There certainly were four lions somewhere. The delicate question was where?


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[Assistant] I peeped and poked and looked in every possible direction with my heart in my mouth.


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[Assistant] Outburst one of the cubs and galloped back towards the burnt pan. I whipped around and let drive a snapshot


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[Assistant] And hurriedly pulled out the old case, which to judge from what ensued,


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[Assistant] Must I suppose have burst and left a portion of its fabric sticking to the barrel.


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[Assistant] When I tried to get in the new cartridge, it would only enter halfway. And would you believe it? This was the moment that the lioness, attracted no doubt by the outcry of her cub, chose to put in an appearance.


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[Assistant] There she stood, twenty paces or so from me, lashing her tail.


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[Assistant] And as I did so, she moved on in little runs, dropping down after each run.


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[Assistant] The danger was imminent and the case would not go in.


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[Assistant] At the moment I oddly enough thought of the cartridge maker, whose name I will not mention, and earnestly hoped that if the lion got me,


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[Assistant] Some combined punishment would overtake him. It would not go in. So I tried to pull it out. It would not come out, either.


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[Assistant] and my gun was useless if I could not shut it to use the other barrel I might as well have had no gun


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[Assistant] Meanwhile I was walking backward, keeping my eye on the lioness, who was creeping forward on her belly without a sound, but lashing her tail and keeping her eye on me.


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[Assistant] And in it I saw that she was coming in a few seconds more.


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[Assistant] I dashed my wrist and the palm of my hand against the brass rim of the cartridge till the blood poured from them. Look, there are the scars of it to this day.


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[Assistant] Here, Quatermain held up his right hand to the light and showed us four or five white cicatrices just where the wrist is set into the hand.


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[Assistant] But it was not of the slightest use, he went on. The cartridge would not move.


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[Assistant] I only hope that no other man will ever be put in such an awful position. The lioness gathered herself together and I gave myself up for lost, when suddenly Tom shouted out from somewhere in my rear, You are walking onto the wounded cub. Turn to the right.


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[Assistant] I had the sense dazed as I was to take the hint.


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[Assistant] And slewing round at right angles, but still keeping my eyes on the lioness, I continued my backward walk.


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[Assistant] With a low growl she straightened herself, turned and bounded further up the cloof. Come on, Makumazon, said Tom. Let's get back to the wagon.


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[Assistant] Alright Tom, I answered, I will when I have killed those three other lions.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile I had found my knife, which had an extractor in it.


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[Assistant] And succeeded after some difficulty in pulling out the cartridge, which had so nearly been the cause of my death, and removing the obstruction in the barrel. It was very little thicker than a postage stamp. Certainly not thicker than a piece of writing paper. This done, I loaded the gun.


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[Assistant] Bound a handkerchief round my wrist and hand to staunch the flowing of the blood. And started on again.


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[Assistant] I had noticed that the lioness went into a thick green bush, a rather cluster of bushes, growing near the water, about fifty yards higher up, for there was a little stream running down the cloof. And I walked towards this bush. When I got there, however, I could see nothing.


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[Assistant] So I took up a big stone and threw it into the bushes. I believe that it hit the other cub, for out it came with a rush, giving me a broadside shot


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[Assistant] But quick as she went, I managed to put the other bullet into her ribs.


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[Assistant] I instantly got two more cartridges into the gun.


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[Assistant] And as I did so, the lioness rose again and came crawling towards me on her fore paws, roaring and groaning, and with such an expression of diabolical fury on her countenance as I have not often seen. I shot her again through the chest


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[Assistant] And she fell over onto her side, quite dead.


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[Assistant] That was the first and last time that I ever killed a brace of lions right and left. And what is more, I never heard of anybody else doing it.


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[Assistant] Naturally, I was considerably pleased with myself.


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[Assistant] And having again loaded up, I went on to look for the black maned beauty who had killed Captain.


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[Assistant] Slowly, and with the greatest care, I proceeded up the cloof.


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[Assistant] Searching every bush and tuft of grass as I went. It was wonderfully exciting work, for I was never sure from one moment to another that he would be on me. I took comfort, however, from the reflection that a lion rarely attacks a man.


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[Assistant] Rarely, I say, sometimes he does, as you will see, unless he is cornered or wounded.


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[Assistant] I must have been nearly an hour hunting after that lion.


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[Assistant] Once I thought I saw something move in a clump of Tambouki grass, but I could not be sure. And when I trod out the grass I could not find him.


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[Assistant] At last I worked up to the head of the Clouffe, which made a cul-de-sac.


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[Assistant] Rose a great piled up mass of boulders.


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[Assistant] In their crevices and on the top of which grew ferns, grasses, and stunted bushes.


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[Assistant] This mass was about 25 feet high.


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[Assistant] The sides of the clouf here were also very steep.


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[Assistant] Well, I came to the top of the nulla and looked all around. No sign of the lion.


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[Assistant] Evidently I had either overlooked him further down or he had escaped right away. It was very vexatious.


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[Assistant] But still, three lions were not a bad bag for one gun before dinner. And I was famed to be content. Accordingly, I departed back again.


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[Assistant] Making my way around the isolated pillar of boulders, beginning to feel as I did so, that I was pretty well done up with excitement and fatigue.


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[Assistant] When I had got, as nearly as I could judge, about 18 yards past the pillar or mass of boulders, I turned to have another look around. I have a pretty sharp eye, but I could see nothing at all.


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[Assistant] Then, on a sudden, I saw something sufficiently alarming.


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[Assistant] On the top of the mass of boulders opposite to me.


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[Assistant] Standing out clear against the rock beyond was the huge black mane lion. He had been crouching there and now arose as though by magic. There he stood, lashing his tail, just like a living reproduction of the animal


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[Assistant] On the gateway of Northumberland House that I have seen in a picture. But he did not stand long. Before I could fire, before I could do more than get the gun to my shoulder, he sprang straight up and out from the rock


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[Assistant] And driven by the impetus of that one mighty bound came hurtling through the air towards me. Heavens, how grand he looked and how awful.


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[Assistant] High into the air he flew, describing a great arch.


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[Assistant] Just as he touched the highest point of his spring, I fired.


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[Assistant] I did not dare to wait for I saw that he would clear the whole space and land right upon me without a sight.


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[Assistant] Almost without aim I fired, as one would fire a snapshot at a snipe. The bullet told


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[Assistant] For I distinctly heard its thud above the rushing sound caused by the passage of the lion through the air. Next second I was swept to the ground.


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[Assistant] Luckily I fell into a low creeper clad bush which broke the shock. And the lion was on the top of me.


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[Assistant] And the next those great white teeth of his had met in my thigh. I heard them grate against the bone.


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[Assistant] For I did not feel in the least benumbed and happy like Dr. Livingston, whom by the way I knew very well, and gave myself up for dead. But suddenly at that moment the lion's grip on my thigh loosened and he stood over me swaying to and fro


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[Assistant] His huge mouth from which the blood was gushing wide opened.


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[Assistant] Then he roared, and the sound shook the rocks.


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[Assistant] To and fro he swung, and then the great head dropped on me, knocking all the breath from my body, and he was dead.


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[Assistant] And passed out on the right side of the spine about half way down the back.


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[Assistant] Thank heavens his great teeth had not crushed my thigh bone. But I was losing a great deal of blood. And had it not been for the timely arrival of Tom,


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[Assistant] With whose aid I loosened the handkerchief from my wrist and tied it round my leg, twisting it tight with a stick. I think that I should have bled to death.


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[Assistant] Well, it was a just reward for my folly in trying to tackle a family of lions single-handed. The odds were too long. I've been lame ever since, and shall be to my dying day. In the month of March, the wound always troubles me a great deal, and every three years it breaks out raw.


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[Assistant] I need scarcely add that I never traded a lot of ivory at Sikakounis. Another man got it, a German.


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[Assistant] They made 500 pounds out of it after paying expenses.


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[Assistant] I spent the next month on the broad of my back and was a cripple for six months after that. And now I've told you the yarn.


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[Assistant] So I will have a drop of Hollins and go to bed. Good night to you all. Good night.


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[Assistant] In order to keep watch daily for the first ship that would pass at sea, I resolved to situate myself as near the coast as possible. The weeks turned to months, and still no sighting of the ship. But I truly believed it must come to pass. Some vessel would sail by my shore sooner rather than later.


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[Assistant] Would guide and protect my kingdom against all evil.


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[Assistant] That he was a savage was indisputable. And yet he seemed to be a decent fellow with heart. In time I might even turn him from his pagan ways. Perhaps this was my mission.


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[Assistant] It became clear to me that I could not have found a better creature to be subject to my benevolent rule. At least that was how I saw it then.


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[Assistant] And prove to know a great deal about planting and harvesting our crops.


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[Assistant] I know, I really heard Gianmarco's feelings in her rehearsal and, uh.


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[Assistant] You have, you are very sensitive, boy. And not everyone knows that. And we can, even those of us who know you can forget it and, uh, make a joke cause, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think those battles can be but there it's a roast so I do feel like you know You've already gone to dark dark places. So saying to


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[Assistant] Yes. And so, you know, you're on a sketch team for six years together. We all have two or three voices you can use in a sketch. You're playing an old person. You do your old man voice. I'm on Wild'n Out. I'm the white girl. I fucking get it. Yes. So, uh, Joe Marco was doing,


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[Assistant] Uh, but yes, you did. That was funny. But, uh, the, um, I still felt bad about later because I, I didn't realize in the moment you were as hurt as you were.


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[Assistant] No one, no one wanted it. It was, it was just, it was only it was, it was a dumb thing that was just like, oh.


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[Assistant] That's a very funny thing to be like, I'm going to contact them and maybe they'll have me on the podcast, but then I'm clearly not listened or looked, looked for more than 10 seconds.


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[Assistant] I've, I've got, it's like one of the only places where I was like, I could never live here. Like never, like you're like, this is horrible. It would be nice for the last two weeks of college and that was it.


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[Assistant] I was like, I was in music school and so it was a little more like of a thing, but also it was like, um, the, the, I would, I knew I was just like, I wasn't cool enough. Like it was like cool, like cool college. They had one at ours. Like you thought it was cool. Pointer counts if you're listening right now.


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[Assistant] What I was stressed about is that we had so many requirements being in music school of like, of ensembles and things to be in and you got


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[Assistant] 0 or 1 credit sometimes for some of them. So I would have like insane scheduling for like, you know, I'd have like,


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[Assistant] It should be more, you're like, those college things too, you're like, no one is reading it, so we could take a little more risks with it.


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[Assistant] So I'll be meaner in a text about a comedy related thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's like just, it's darker and snarkier, but it's not like, I don't feel mad, like I don't feel like.


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[Assistant] I was in charge, the only comedy thing I did in high school was like, I was in charge of like putting together the MCs for the talent show. I hosted mine in high school. And we did sketches in between and stuff. Yes. So it was like my first time writing. So we had like, there was like five or six of us that were doing these sketches and stuff.


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[Assistant] And at one point we were like coming up with the sketches we were writing and uh, we were talking about these mean girls that were in our high school and we were kind of like making fun of them and figuring out like can we do something


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[Assistant] In a sketch, kind of like, not directly calling them out, but like their vibe of-


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. I remember it was so hard to get booze in high school. I was surprised because you know, obviously everyone was drinking and I didn't really drink in high school until like the last


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[Assistant] I think maybe a year. And uhm, it was, it felt so hard. I remember a meeting on a back road.


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[Assistant] It was, it was so fun, but I was like, I remember spending $20 for those three beers in high school for like, and it wasn't at a bar, you know, it was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah. I, yeah, I just don't have any, I, I don't, I can't control it as much as with drinking. So it's like, I don't know it as much, I don't do it.


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[Assistant] I think because they hired Alfred Molina as like a middle eastern person. And then, you know, I think that that's why, I think, because then, and then Tina Fey said something like


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[Assistant] I, I, I got a, uh, I got in college, I got a, a, a, a thing. I got in trouble with the police for, for peeing. Sex offender? No, no, no. God no. Uh, they were nice. They did, they, they labeled it disorderly conduct.


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[Assistant] Um, uh, and so it never went on my record. Where were you peeing? Like, uh, so there's a bar and it was across the street from the bar. It was so stupid. We were in the bar and then we went out and then we quickly realized that it was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, one time, oh, I have a memory, such a memory of, of a bar in downtown and I had to shit so bad and it was such a crowded bar. And I was, the line was so long and it was like, you're waiting in line for a long time. I'm like, oh, my stomach's just like, I got to shit. And then I get in there. There was one toilet and it has no door.


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[Assistant] I mean, like, anyone that used the sync would be there in full view, but I was like, I can't, I can't.


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[Assistant] I can't do it. I was like, it was, I was low, but it was also like one of those things where you're like, you made plans and you were out for the evening and it was like so early. It was like, I had gotten there right away and I had to shit and I was like, there's no way I can, I can leave. I can't do it. You know, I just have to do this. I just have to like pretend there's not people who can see me shit right now and do it.


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[Assistant] No, they don't give. When you're one of 12, it's like, it's, there's no way you're going to be that close with any of those.


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[Assistant] I had so much fun at our show, uh, you know, as always, I'm very thankful for this group of people that I get to do shows with. Uhm, it's always a good weekend when we get to do a show and it goes well. Russell had a great sketch.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, everything went well and I just had a really good time that night and I'm always thankful to get to do that stuff with you guys.


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[Assistant] I was notified that a murder had occurred in North Hollywood. All I knew at the time, it was that Mr. Blake's wife was murdered. My job is to take more difficult, high-profile investigative cases.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we're gonna do a crime scene. Probably covered by me.


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[Assistant] That they were at the Tello's restaurant. Bonnie Lee and uh, Mr. Blake. They had their dinner and they left. And he walked her back to the car. She got in the car.


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[Assistant] It is very unusual for Mr. Blake to forget his gun in a restaurant. I mean, I've never heard of anything like that.


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[Assistant] She was a little shady person I would describe her. Everything I looked at in her past, I uncovered a lot of problems.


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[Assistant] I'm from his era. He used to watch his television shows and I've seen his movies.


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[Assistant] When I'm thinking about this case, there's only two people there, one turns up dead, so Mr. Blake... must've killed her. But...


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[Assistant] I did listen to Mr. Blake's uh, statement to North Hollywood Detectives.


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[Assistant] We were given that information that he was worried about some guy he described as buzz cut and this person was watching his house.


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[Assistant] I did serve a search warrant at Mr. Blake's house. And that search warrant wasn't just for Mr. Blake, that was for the victim too.


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[Assistant] Bonnie did keep a lot of things that was unusual, I thought. Letters and articles and recordings.


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[Assistant] She did have a dating service in these magazines, Lonely Hearts and advertising.


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[Assistant] I did find out about Bonnie telling Brando that it was his baby, telling Blake that it was his baby. She stopped saying that to Brando pretty quick.


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[Assistant] We recovered, uh, several cassette recordings from Bonnie's living quarters.


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[Assistant] That was one of the tapes that included Christian Brandl's phone conversation with Bonnie.


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[Assistant] We knew about his criminal record. We knew about the mass slaughter he had over here in L.A. So we knew that he was a person that could pull the trigger and kill


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[Assistant] We're able to interview enough witnesses and people that had seen him in Washington and he never left his house during that time.


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[Assistant] There was a dumpster in front of the car at the crime scene. We eventually went through that dumpster and


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[Assistant] Which is the same caliber as the murder weapon. Then we had the, uh, gun realistically tested.


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[Assistant] And because we did find some oil containers nearby. Covering a gun with motor oil could destroy fingerprints.


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[Assistant] We could not say that any particular person had that gun or was the owner of the gun.


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[Assistant] The criticism the media will give us is they, did they make a mistake here? Did they make a mistake there? And why aren't they solving this case?


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[Assistant] And changed his clothes and our detective took his clothes. And we later had it analyzed.


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[Assistant] And the amount of, uh, gunshot residue was left.


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[Assistant] He said he had shot and qualified at a local pistol range.


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[Assistant] And uhm, he was wearing the same clothes and, you know, the gunshot residue was transferred.


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[Assistant] What was different was that Mr. Blake parked so far away, and he usually parks in a parking lot.


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[Assistant] The restaurant was not that full. There was plenty of space in the parking lot. But then he chose to park a block and a half away.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the darker area of the street was a dumpster that's blocking view of his car. So that adds to the mystery.


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[Assistant] Comes back to the car and finds Bonnie in that condition.


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[Assistant] Come back for the gun, the owner. It's all him in there eating.


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[Assistant] And then next time you saw him was when he was there asking for help was white. Mr. Blake had no alibi.


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[Assistant] Very close. They were close. They were friends. They talked all the time.


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[Assistant] Marjorie had a lot of concerns about Mr. Blake. Things happening to her that was unusual.


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[Assistant] And she had to leave and left her baby and never was able to get her back.


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[Assistant] The guy who escorted Bonnie out was not a probation officer. He was a private investigator.


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[Assistant] It was the baby. Mr. Blake wanted custody of Rosie. And didn't want Bonnie.


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[Assistant] In the course of my investigation, I realized he was doing just about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, nice guy, very colorful, had a story to tell.


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[Assistant] Gary McClarty was a character. He had shot somebody before, and he had a drug habit.


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[Assistant] In the past, he was not your regular, everyday, Mr. Nice Guy. Believe me, I'm telling you the truth. So we did have to look at him very carefully.


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[Assistant] The story was that Mr. Blake tried to hire him to kill Bonnie.


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[Assistant] He gave, uhm, examples of how it could be done. One of the examples was that he could...


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[Assistant] We had enough evidence at that time. We, uh, requested authorization from the chief to arrest, uh, Mr. Blake. He says, hey, let's do it.


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[Assistant] When I got to the house, I met Mr. Blake and I told him that I had an arrest warrant for the murder of his wife.


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[Assistant] This case involves around Blake wanting to get rid of Bonnie.


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[Assistant] To the point that he wants to just get rid of her out of his life and take Rosie.


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[Assistant] He solicited these, uh, hitmen to do his job. They all refused. He was getting desperate. Nobody else would do it for him. So he was out of choices. He was gonna play it out and then he did it himself.


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[Assistant] He doesn't go back to Vitello's restaurant like he told us. What he does is he most likely had that gun hidden somewhere in the car. Under the seat maybe, the driver's seat. Goes around to the passenger side.


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[Assistant] Listen to me. You're gaming me and you're gaming Blake.


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[Assistant] Robert Blake, uh, had contempt for Bonnie Bakley.


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[Assistant] Do you think it should be legal in the state of Indiana to discriminate against gays or lesbians?


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[Assistant] I am the one who should apologize for attending so inopportunely.


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[Assistant] It's quite obvious to me that you're interviewing a patient privately.


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[Assistant] Women are frequently rather neurotic creatures, and the hospital atmosphere is upsetting to them.


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[Assistant] I have a rather undignified scuffling, which I heard when I came into the hall. I gather that she beat a hasty retreat down the back stairs. I'm surprised at this farcical streak in your nature, Alec.


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[Assistant] Such careings aren't quite unnecessary. After all, we've been friends for years, and I am the most broad-minded of men. I'm really very sorry, Stephen.


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[Assistant] Goodbye. Perhaps you'll let me have my latch key back. I only have two and I'm so afraid of losing them. You know how absent-minded I am.


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[Assistant] Thank you for calling the Trump National War Room. All of our agents are busy helping other callers. At the tone, please record your message. When you finish recording, you may hang up or press the pound key for more options.


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[Assistant] I just let it out, I just let it out. That's fine. Just, like, give me this one, god. Just please, if I have anything, just let me clear this stage. I don't need a million dollars, I don't need, like, world peace or whatever, just help me finish this stage.


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[Assistant] Uh, welcome back everybody. Hello! Uh, it's Game Grumps time. Check this out. Uh, you might be noticing I'm basically at the end in the background of the thing. I already did it! You didn't miss anything?


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[Assistant] Yep. It was arduous and silent and upsetting and uh, I just fucking plowed through it and it happened.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so here I am. Actually there was kind of a funny moment where I was like being chased by one of those red homing bullets. It was like right behind me and I was like no, no, no, no. So imagine that in your head.


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[Assistant] This is... Woah! Oooooh, yikes. Okay, so I'm guaranteed to win here.


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[Assistant] Throw bombs? Oh, and I have a sword too.


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[Assistant] Who would use such a thing? This must have been part of like the new update. Cause there's also like the Mario 2 shit you can do.


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[Assistant] Alright, I think I have to throw the bomb at this bad boy. Woah.


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[Assistant] Maybe I have to throw the bomb at the thing that goes- There we go.


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[Assistant] Ahh. Ahh, and that gets him. Nice, nice. So smart. Dude, that was a nice little puzzle there.


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[Assistant] That was pretty nice, that was pretty- Oh, I could've just gone up there and it would've been there. Alright. Oh. Yes. Eeeeee. Siree.


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[Assistant] Oh, do I have to toss the bomb again? I have to time it right. Did he actually like look up the Deku tree stage and like figure out how it went?


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[Assistant] No, alright, what's the goal here? I have to get up there. That's all I have to do.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, okay. That's easy enough, right? So, if that gets turned off, then the bomb boy goes over there, and he explodo.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's like a legit real puzzle here. Oh yeah. Okay, so that gets turned on, I can go here, but I can't make it up there, so that's fine.


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[Assistant] That's fun. It killed me, but it's fun.


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[Assistant] Tell us why, even in Zelda there's checkpoints. Saves your progress. Nice. This is the first game that had the fucking battery, you know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Which battery? The battery in the cartridge that helps you save your progress.


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[Assistant] And if it was... It would be so, it would be so uhm... Whoops.


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[Assistant] That's how you do it. That's how you do it! Yeah, so, and the battery would always be like a little dead. So, once it died, then you would have to, uhm, just leave it plugged into the console. Once you took it out of the console, then it-


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and it's like, you don't have a stupid password or whatever.


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[Assistant] Megaman had a password. Which is cool though because it doesn't actually save anything, it just generates the where you're at based on the password.


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[Assistant] No. That don't make no sense though. Do it make sense?


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[Assistant] No, that don't make no sense though. No, no, swim, swim, swim, swim, swim, swim. Dude, I don't know what to do here.


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[Assistant] That off switch turned on.


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[Assistant] Maybe? No, but then I can't get back up here if I do the thing in the little door. Right. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Come on phone. Call Ross. Fucking technology can't do shit.


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[Assistant] Hey man, we're- Yo Ross! Yo, hey Ross. What's up? We're doing Game Grumps right now.


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[Assistant] Is he good? Uh, so check this. We're on the Great Deku Tree? Yeah. Uhm, the stupid thing with the, the P block? What the hell? What do you do? Which one? What do you mean which one? There's more? God, this sucks.


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[Assistant] Okay, hold on, let me try. Oh, so it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I screamed into a pillow as a result of that one.


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[Assistant] The thwomp stage was brutal. Yeah, the thwomp stage with the Monty Moles.


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[Assistant] Good. Uhm, I can't think of any other ones in particular that were extremely upsetting. What?


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[Assistant] Oh, yeaah, you know, okay, so let me tell you my experience with that stage.


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[Assistant] Just one, just one. So I felt like the ten- once one of them died, I was like, well, I'm not getting through this with all of them, so the tension sort of died for me. Uhm, if I had known from the beginning I just had to keep one alive, then I think I probably would have been more tense about it.


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[Assistant] Hello? Oh god. Dan, I mean Ross. I'm here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's- I feel like this-


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I don't know how to use the link, so there's nothing in this stage that teaches you how to use the link, cause I think-


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[Assistant] Ross assumed that I would know how to use the Link, cause it's like a thing that Nintendo has to introduce and not him. I see. But, this is the first time I'm using Link so I didn't know I could do all that shit.


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[Assistant] I'm actually learning German right now. Really? Yeah, I learned a bunch of it in high school.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it was too hard for me at a certain point, so I was just like, I'm not following up on this. But then, I got Duolingo, and I started learning Japanese on it, and you can like, just add languages to your program. So I was like, I'll add fucking German, because I did enjoy it. And I would like to go to Germany someday, and uhm, have a good time there.


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[Assistant] Oh, I see, okay. Okay, got it, I see. It was supposed to, but I fell. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Let me see if I can fight it. I really enjoy that. That's the, that's just how, that's it. What was it from? Uhm, I was, it might have been Mario Maker.


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[Assistant] I think I was clearly talking about something that wasn't super cool and fun. That was kind of the joke of it.


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[Assistant] Uuuh. But yea, I think it might have been... Like it, obviously it was something hard and not fun.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright. I did it, but I don't know if I did it, like I did it, did it, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Okay, so the first one that I go past is that one.


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[Assistant] And that one, and then all the way to the bottom. Oh, so I have to wait until... Do I have to wait until?


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[Assistant] Go down. It has a certain time before it goes back. A certain time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it comes back right there. Right there it comes back. Oh, but I- cause I have to use the down slash to go faster.


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[Assistant] So many fireballs, so the great Deku Tree boss is Goma. So I guess that's him being on the ceiling.


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[Assistant] Doo doo doo doo. And you shoot arrows at it. That's cute! It's adorable.


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[Assistant] Oh, time ran out. You're so right, that's what happened. Dang. It took too long.


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[Assistant] I doubt that they were gonna turn it on when I was like, but I guess...


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[Assistant] I f- I feel that dude. You know what you need to get? You need to get one of those, uh, jaccards. You know, wearable tech.


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[Assistant] So you can blink and then turn your phone off or whatever. Google Glass. It's bizarre. Put some Google-


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[Assistant] Yeah. Dude, we've been conditioned to be racist against androids our whole life.


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[Assistant] Terminator will get cancelled.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's the music that's playing right now, but...


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[Assistant] Can I just stay down here? Oh yea, you can like choose your own destiny down here. Oh, cool.


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[Assistant] Nope. Not interested. I don't wanna get shot by our electric prowess. Woah, watch out!


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[Assistant] Dang. Yeah, there's a lot of spikes going on. This is some bullet hell shit. This is some moosow.


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[Assistant] What is it? Is it Moose Howl? No, it's not what I'm thinking of.


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[Assistant] Could just shoot regular fireballs, I don't need to hold Y. It's actually much better.


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[Assistant] Can they put remixes on Spoovy? Uhm, I mean it's not a remix of anything in particular.


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[Assistant] So, so, if anybody wants anybody dead...


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[Assistant] See, if you stay low, it's kind of, it's kind of, it's kind of nice. Not too bad. Yeah, it's kind of a sequel.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. I guess Mario is funnier than Game Grumps.


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[Assistant] How do I make the shop work? Oh. No?


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[Assistant] I can come in from the top. Nope, no I can't.


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[Assistant] I'm assuming he's like the shopkeep, and that's like the, that's the concept. I can't figure out how to make this work. Throw a bomb at him or something. I don't have a, oh, okay, I'll just pull him out of my inventory.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is easy. Yeah, this is super cool. This is like, it's like the transitionary stage in Gradius, you know? Fun.


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[Assistant] You can play- I can see why you would get confused, cause you can play as Vic Viper in Parodius.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just ripe for a record scratch. Yeah, that's me.


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[Assistant] Cool. Phew. Wait, can I even spawn there, or does the thing spawn there? Oh boy. Uhm, uhm. It's another shop!


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[Assistant] Time for another opportunity to- Oh, I think I see what I'm supposed to do here. Yeah, I stand there and then I whack the side.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh. You're supposed to throw the thing at the thing and die. Yes. It's all so very clear. Alright, here we go. Whoops.


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[Assistant] No, I don't want it on my head. I don't want it on my head, Charlie Brown. You can take it off, right? No, I can't. Can I? Do you have to get hit? I'm fucked. I don't know how to use the shop.


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[Assistant] That's true. I'm like two sec- if there's another shop, I'm like two seconds away from Collin Ross.


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[Assistant] Da-da, da-da, da-da. Oh, whoa, boss boy. Mm-hmm. Yo. Oh, now he can't, or can he?


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[Assistant] Oh, I died. Wow. You know, it's fine. It's really fine. Super cool and fun. Oh, I'm here! Okay, cool. Nice. Uhh...


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[Assistant] Stop pretending you like PB&J. What the fuck are you trying to tell me, Postmates?


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[Assistant] Oh wow. Hey. That's beautiful. I love it.


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[Assistant] Yoshi. Yoshi? What? How do you use Yoshi when you're in the thing? I'm writing two different things at once.


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[Assistant] That's, that's like Ratatouille, man, I'm riding a Yoshi that's control- Oh, dude!


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[Assistant] Yeah, what the fuck? Oh, there's spikes on the bottom. Okay. Well good for him he can survive spikes, he's got boots on.


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[Assistant] What is Mario barefoot or what? Sweet little booties. Oh, okay. Well, at least I got it back. Kinda nice. And, BWAH!


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[Assistant] Wow. Really threading the needle on this one.


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[Assistant] There we go. Okay, Yosh man. I like the Fire Flower the most, but I'll take a Yosh.


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[Assistant] The very concept of it is awesome, but uh, in practice not at all.


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[Assistant] Here we go. Yoshi blast. Yeah, Yoshi's pretty good. I'll take a Yoshi.


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[Assistant] This, I could actually win this. No, I can't, cause I need to get back up there.


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[Assistant] But I'll, you know what, I'm just gonna do it. Fuck it. This is my legacy. This is, this is the hill I'm willing to die on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just like, really good and funny.


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[Assistant] We're finally here on our last album.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Which, I'm glad you got passed, cause a lot of people drop off after the second world.


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[Assistant] What were you doing behind that curtain? He asked. I was reading, I answered. Show me the book. I gave it to him. You have no right to take our books, he continued.


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[Assistant] You have no money and your father left you none. You ought to beg in the streets, not live here in comfort with a gentleman's family. Anyway.


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[Assistant] All these books are mine. And so is the whole house. Or will be in a few years time. I'll teach you not to borrow my books again.


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[Assistant] He lifted the heavy book and threw it hard at me.


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[Assistant] It hit me and I fell, cutting my head on the door. I was in great pain. And suddenly for the first time in my life, I forgot my fear of John Reed.


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[Assistant] I didn't start by doing like the savage shit. Okay. Where'd you start out though? I was just like eating hot dogs really fast. And then, yeaah. It's crazy. Wait, like, how many hot dogs were you talking? Like three. Three hot dogs? Just eat them in like three seconds.


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[Assistant] Boom Gang is from Florida as well, right? He's from Miami, yea, Miami, Florida.


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[Assistant] Selfie. Just all selfies. Selfie game strong.


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[Assistant] So we decided, cause I was gonna get into rapping, he's like the kid who inspired me to start rapping and all that good shit. But, so once I moved up there, I switched my name back.


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[Assistant] He will fuck with it. I mean, I get a lot of haters too, but it is what it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well the reason I stopped the hot dog thing is, you know Nathan's like the hot dog contest? Yeah. They had a qualifier in, I think it was Miami, and I was gonna do it.


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[Assistant] And then we like were practicing and we had like 10 hot dogs lined up and buns and everything and we were gonna like test it out.


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[Assistant] I got like, the three hot dogs, four hot dogs down, and then I started eating buns, and I just, shit's hard.


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[Assistant] It all depends on what you're doing. A lot of the shit that everyone does...


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[Assistant] It's all planned out now, like once you get to it, like when I first started, the first like 200k,


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[Assistant] People thought like we were giving out lace blunts and a bunch of crazy shit. Really? Yea.


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[Assistant] Not really, like, the only video cops got involved in was, like,


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[Assistant] And then like, the whole arrest from the first Duncan video blew up, so everyone thought it was from the second one, and everyone like thought every video was real. Right. Which like, is what caused them to blow up, because that just went everywhere.


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[Assistant] Like if he was really stealing all that shit he steals, he would definitely be in jail.


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[Assistant] Not usually. You usually know what to expect with his. He's just gonna steal something. Mine, I switch it up like every time.


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[Assistant] We don't have like a whole lot of stuff out, it's mainly like team patties, stuff like that. But we gotta like, think of something crazy. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] He actually like realized who I was before I even said anything. Damn, that's pretty crazy.


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[Assistant] Walkin' up, seein' somethin' to his friends, like Tato and Ballout, and actin' like he was dumpin' somethin' on his head.


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[Assistant] Someone actually, like, did that. I seen it off the bong.


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[Assistant] I got a couple. Okay, that's good. How much do you spend on it? They get stinky sometimes. Yeah, you go wash it? Yeah, for sure.


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[Assistant] You're trying to stay healthy too, right Matt? You might have to do the poop thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, shout out to A-Mails, he's the one who like, got it going for me.


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[Assistant] I wanna do it all, like the comedy shit, vlogs, music, just have it all going. Overall, entertainer. Yea. That's kinda what it is to be a...


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[Assistant] It was a Duncan video. It was a Duncan video. I hopped through the drive thru. But like, it was different. Cause I hopped through the drive thru, but I was helping him out. Like I took out the trash and shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, we went through the drive-thru and got food and this kid was like, oh yo, Supreme Patty, what's up? Yo, what's up? Let me make a video.


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[Assistant] We didn't tell him what we were gonna do, we just did it. We even like recorded him saying that. Okay. So if anything happened, like...


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[Assistant] CreamPatty.com. Go check it out. Get them, I have a little dick gang shirts.


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[Assistant] After Bessie had left, he asked, what really made you ill? I was locked up in a room with a ghost in the dark. Afraid of ghosts, are you? He smiled. Of Mr. Reed's ghost, yes. He died in that room, you know. Nobody even goes in there anymore.


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[Assistant] It was cruel to lock me in there alone without a candle. I shall never forget it. But you aren't afraid now.


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[Assistant] There must be another reason why you're so sad, he said, looking kindly at me.


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[Assistant] How could I tell him all the reasons for my unhappiness?


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[Assistant] I have no father or mother, brothers or sisters, I began. But you have a kind aunt and cousins. But John Reed knocked me down, and my aunt locked me in the red room, I cried. There was a pause.


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[Assistant] Don't you like living at Gateshead in such a beautiful house? He asked. I would be glad to leave it, but I have nowhere else to go. You have no relations apart from Mrs. Reed? I think I may have some who are very poor, but I know nothing about them. I answered. Would you like to go to school? He asked finally. I thought for a moment. I knew very little about school, but at least it would be a change. The start of a new life.


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[Assistant] Yes, I would like to go, I replied in the end. Well, well, said the doctor to himself as he got up. We'll see. The child is delicate. She ought to have a change of air.


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[Assistant] Let me start that it's a revolution, it's not a war, it's not a civil war, it start as a revolution and it will stay as a revolution.


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[Assistant] To destroy this wall of fear inside them and start this revolution. And I think a revolution without a goal to be finished


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[Assistant] 12 million refugees and the regime is already having a very, uh, very, uh, uh, uh, bad.


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[Assistant] Yes, we, we, we are ready to speak with the...


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[Assistant] Anyway, and after that, a people from inside the regime, we can sit with them and negotiate for the, this will be a good approach.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, I think we are using the time, wasting the time, and I will want to distinguish here between the priority of the international community. You mentioned that before one year the ISIS was became so powerful and controlling one or three of the Syria, et cetera, et cetera. Okay.


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[Assistant] ISIS is a result of political failure of the international community of dealing with the Syrian problem. You have to deal with the Syrian problem to get rid of ISIS.


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[Assistant] Not, not only to send some, uh, uh, jet fighter, uh, fight, fighters to, to bombard them and believe me.


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[Assistant] The international community can play a very good role when be a partner with this process.


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[Assistant] Yes, ISIS is a problem, and who can fight ISIS on the ground is the Sunnis in the river, and it means the people who is, uh,


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[Assistant] I think this disqualifies the human rights value in the world, where when the 50% of the Syrian people displaces or refugees, when 50% of the infrastructure has been destroyed by Assad regime,


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[Assistant] 12 reporter, we are sorry that had been killed by a tourist in, in, in Paris. All the world have been moved and touched with this people. We have, we have


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[Assistant] 100 of the Syrian people has been, has been killed under torture. 500 reporters, local reporters was covering the revolution. Peaceful reporter have been killed by the regime and there is thousands of them now in the jail under torture. Nobody take care about them.


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[Assistant] They mentioned about the power and how Bashar Assad is strong, et cetera, et cetera, with the Iranian or without the Iranian. I want to mention for Adaria, this small town only one kilometer distance away of Damascus. Those people under the siege.


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[Assistant] Over Saudi Arabia and Turkey and Qatar for not arming the opposition. With arming the opposition I will assure you within one or two months we can get this regime and his allies from Syria.


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[Assistant] I see it not people who came from Mers. I see people who came from the local community. And I see a result of this.


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[Assistant] Look, what's happening now that ISIS is being extended. I don't care about this, uh,


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[Assistant] to accept our priorities. We want to fight regime, Assad regime and al-Nusra in the same time, al-Qaeda in the same time, but we are not going to fight al-Qaeda with the Assad or without the Assad. We will wait.


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[Assistant] Mediators, they are somehow his partner with Bashar Assad or supporting him politically and, and, and then now the Syrian people looking for the American administration as working for undercover. They are putting the Russian in the front, but actually they are working together.


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[Assistant] Uh, I want to mention something. Since three years, with every diplomat or politician from the West I have met, they were saying, go and talk to the Russians. They are in the same boat.


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[Assistant] Then be careful to say as little as you can. Don't tell him I'm your wife.


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[Assistant] Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God, They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow.


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[Assistant] But how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?


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[Assistant] But the child wasn't sure he really wanted to go. But tell me, here in heaven


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[Assistant] I don't do anything else but sing and smile. That's enough for me to be happy.


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[Assistant] Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you every day. And you will feel your angels love and be happy.


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[Assistant] And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me? God patted him on the head and said,


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[Assistant] Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear.


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[Assistant] And with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak.


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[Assistant] I've heard that on earth there are bad men. Who will protect me? Your angel will defend you, even if it means risking her life. At that moment there was much peace in heaven, but voices from earth could already be heard.


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[Assistant] The child knew he had to start on his journey very soon. He asked God one more question softly. Oh God, if I'm about to leave now, please tell me my angel's name. God touched the child on the shoulder and answered, your angel's name is not hard to remember. You will simply call her mummy.


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[Assistant] Girls, this morning you had a breakfast which you couldn't eat. You must be hungry, so I have ordered a lunch of bread and cheese for you all. The teachers looked at her in surprise.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, I take responsibility for it, she told them. We were delighted, and all rushed out into the garden to eat our lunch. Nobody had taken any notice of me so far, but I did not mind that. I stood alone outside, watching some of the stronger girls playing, trying to forget the bitter cold, and thinking about my life.


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[Assistant] Gateshead and the Reed family seemed a long way away. I was not yet used to school life, and what sort of future could I look forward to? As I wondered, I saw a girl near me reading a book.


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[Assistant] I felt brave enough to speak to her, since I too liked reading. Is your book interesting? What is it about? I asked. Well, I like it, she said after a pause, looking at me. Here, have a look at it. I glanced quickly at it, but found it too difficult to understand, so I gave it back. What sort of school is this? I asked. It's called Lowood School.


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[Assistant] It's a charity school. We're all charity children you see. I expect your parents are dead, aren't they? All the girls here have lost either one or both parents.


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[Assistant] And California has given me absolutely everything. And today, und today, California has given me the greatest gift of all. You have given me your trust by voting for me. Thank you very much to all the people of California for giving me their great trust.


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[Assistant] And let me tell you something. I will do everything I can to live up to that trust.


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[Assistant] I will not fail you. I will not disappoint you. And I will not let you down.


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[Assistant] For two months, I've been speaking out about the needs of bringing back fiscal responsibility to this state, bringing back the positive business atmosphere, bringing back businesses, bringing back jobs, and bringing back our education.


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[Assistant] People that want to raise their families here. People who want to do business here. Who want to have jobs here. Who want to educate their kids here. People that want to enjoy the clean air and the clean water. And I have heard your voice. I have heard your voices loud and clear.


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[Assistant] We have to now. We have tough choices ahead. The first choice that we must make is the one that will determine our success. Shall we rebuild our stage together?


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[Assistant] For the people to win, politics as usual must lose. I will reach out to Republicans, to Democrats and independents, to those who supported the recall and those who did not. Those who supported me today and those who did not.


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[Assistant] I want to reach out to everybody, to young and old, rich and poor, people of all religions, all colors and all nationalities. I want to be the governor for the people. I want to represent everybody.


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[Assistant] This is the little girl I wrote you about, said Mrs. Reed to the stony stranger. Well, Jane Eyre, said the stranger heavily, and are you a good child?


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[Assistant] It was impossible to say yes, with Mrs. Reed sitting there. So I was silent.


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[Assistant] Perhaps the less said about that the better, Mr. Brocklehurst," said Mrs. Reed, shaking her head. I'm sorry to hear it, he answered.


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[Assistant] Come here, Jane Eyre, and answer my questions. Where do the wicked go after death? They go to hell, I answered. And what must you do to avoid going there? He asked. I thought for a moment, but could not find the right answer. I must keep in good health and not die, I replied. Wrong! Children younger than you die all the time.


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[Assistant] Another question. Do you enjoy reading the Bible?


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[Assistant] Yes, sometimes. I replied hesitating. That is not enough.


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[Assistant] Your answers show me you have a wicked heart. You must pray to God to change it if you ever want to go to heaven.


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[Assistant] They carried me off the train and put me into an American ambulance. After a while we arrived at the American hospital. A doorman came out and met us at the ambulance. He and the two drivers carried me into the building, but when we got to the elevator, my stretcher was too big.


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[Assistant] When we got to the second floor, there was nobody to meet us.


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[Assistant] He finally returned with an older woman who wore glasses.


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[Assistant] The old nurse said she was American. Please, just find me a room. Anywhere is fine.


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[Assistant] I could not stand the pain in my legs. It was getting worse.


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[Assistant] Take me to a room, I said to the doorman in Italian. My legs really hurt. I can't stand it anymore.


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[Assistant] The doorman looked at the nurse. She obviously did not speak Italian.


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[Assistant] I suddenly became really angry and screamed to the old nurse, Take me to a room!


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[Assistant] The men took me to the nearest room and gently placed me on the bed.


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[Assistant] Said the nurse. I don't care I answered.


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[Assistant] I gave the two drivers and the doorman some money for helping me out and told them they could go. Then I showed my medical papers to the old nurse.


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[Assistant] It also lists the medication I've been taking.


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[Assistant] I saw she was totally useless and I asked her to leave. I started to feel very sleepy. My pain began to go away slowly.


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[Assistant] I imagine Miss Barkley coming to my bed to care for me.


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[Assistant] I woke up in the morning and a beautiful young nurse came into the room.


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[Assistant] That would be great, I answered. By the way,


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[Assistant] Is there an English nurse here named Catherine Barkley?


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[Assistant] She started to take my clothes off and wash my body carefully. It was very comfortable. Afterward, she put a hospital dress on me and took my temperature. I asked for some water and had the curtains opened. The room suddenly filled with light.


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[Assistant] The manager of the hospital, Miss Van Campen, visited me. From the very beginning, neither one of us liked each other.


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[Assistant] She did not seem to like the fact that I was fighting for the Italians.


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[Assistant] I asked her if I could drink wine with my supper, but she did not agree to it.


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[Assistant] She said that we would have to wait for the doctor to return. I got angry and shouted, When the hell is this doctor coming? He's chosen a wonderful time to take a vacation. Miss Van Campen then left the room.


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[Assistant] A few minutes later, Miss Gage returned and asked me why I had been so impolite to her boss.


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[Assistant] I told her that Miss Van Campen was too immodest, in my opinion.


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[Assistant] I hid the things under my bed and immediately enjoyed a sip of wine.


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[Assistant] When Miss Gage came in with a small alcoholic drink, I hid the bottle of wine again.


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[Assistant] I told Miss Gage to express my appreciation to her boss. I then fell asleep. That night I woke up several times feeling very frightened.


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[Assistant] Outside I could see the searchlights shining high up into the clouds. I could not fall back asleep and spent the rest of the night staring out the window.


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[Assistant] It was not until the sun rose again that I finally managed to go back to sleep.


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[Assistant] The next night, Oliver was alone in Fagin's house when Nancy entered.


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[Assistant] She was so nervous and white faced that Oliver asked her if she was ill.


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[Assistant] She sat with her back


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[Assistant] Chapter 18 The summer went quickly and I had a very good time with Catherine.


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[Assistant] We went to the races several times with the Myers, but we never won much. Meanwhile, the war was not going so well in Italy.


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[Assistant] September came and it looked like the Italian army had made a mistake in trying to attack so many different places.


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[Assistant] I heard from one officer that the Italians had lost over a hundred thousand men in one area alone.


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[Assistant] Because of this many people were beginning to be against the war.


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[Assistant] Several towns had had conflicts between the people and the police because the people were marching in the street demanding that the war be ended.


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[Assistant] An English major I met in a bar was very negative about the outcome of the war. He believed that the Germans were too good to beat. The Italians were suffering. The Russians were suffering.


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[Assistant] Everyone was suffering except for the Germans, he said.


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[Assistant] My legs were much better now, although I still had a little trouble walking. I still exercise daily at the hospital.


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[Assistant] One day I got a couple of letters. One was from the military.


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[Assistant] They informed me that I had only three more weeks of rest and then I needed to go back to the front again. The other letter was from my grandfather.


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[Assistant] Who gave me news about my family and sent me $200 to live on.


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[Assistant] Rinaldi also wrote me and wanted to know when I was coming back.


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[Assistant] I then looked at a few of the American newspapers Mrs. Myers had brought for us.


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[Assistant] The news in them was quite old and uninteresting.


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[Assistant] About the only thing I cared to read was the sports page. But even that bored me after a while.


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[Assistant] They are only giving me three more weeks and then I've got to go back.


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[Assistant] That doesn't seem possible. What about your job here?


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[Assistant] She suddenly looked anxious. What's wrong?


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[Assistant] What is it? Don't worry, I won't blame you. I went over to hold her. She was shaking and crying. I'm here with you, I'll always be with you.


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[Assistant] For a short while neither one of us said anything. I did not know what really to say. She did not either.


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[Assistant] Then she came over to the bed and took my hands in hers.


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[Assistant] Yes? We need to be strong. We'll be together after the war. I love you.


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[Assistant] She poured me a glass of wine and then got up to go. You are leaving? I asked.


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[Assistant] I've arranged it so that I will be getting you ready this morning.


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[Assistant] I just hate having the other nurses care for you. I must warn you though, this won't be fun.


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[Assistant] Be sure that you don't think about me when they give you the medication to sleep. You might mention me during the operation.


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[Assistant] You are such a good boy. I hope they don't send me away from you soon.


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[Assistant] This hospital has too many nurses and too few patients.


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[Assistant] I fear that they may ask some of us to leave.


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[Assistant] You'll be too ill from the operation to want anything.


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[Assistant] Be honest with me. Have you loved many other women?


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[Assistant] I know you are not telling the truth, but I'll pretend it's the truth. Do you really love me?


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[Assistant] If I do whatever you want, will you love me forever? And not love any other women anymore?


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[Assistant] I won't be ten minutes replied Oliver eagerly and he ran out into the street.


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[Assistant] So you expect him to come back, do you, inquired Mr. Grimwig?


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[Assistant] He has a new suit of clothes, some valuable books, and a five pound note in his pocket. He'll join his old friends the thieves and laugh at you. If he comes back, I'll eat my hat.


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[Assistant] The two men sat by the window with a pocket watch between them and waited for Oliver's return.


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[Assistant] There's more if you want it, so eat as much as you like.


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[Assistant] I observed it as you entered the room said Holmes. It is an old manuscript.


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[Assistant] Early 18th century, unless it's a forgery. How can you say that, sir?


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[Assistant] You have presented an inch or two of it to my examination all the time that you have been talking.


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[Assistant] It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so. You may possibly have read my little monograph upon the subject. I put that at 1730. The exact date is 1742. Dr. Mortimer drew it from his breast pocket. This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville,


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[Assistant] A sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.


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[Assistant] I may say that I was his personal friend as well as his medical attendant. He was a strong-minded man, sir, shrewd, practical, and as unimaginative as I am myself. Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.


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[Assistant] Holmes stretched out his hand for the manuscript and flattened it upon his knee.


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[Assistant] It is one of several indications which enabled me to fix the date.


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[Assistant] I looked over his shoulder at the yellow paper and the faded script.


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[Assistant] At the head was written Baskerville Hall, and below in large scrolling figures 1742. It appears to be a statement of some sort.


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[Assistant] Yes, it is a statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family.


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[Assistant] A most practical pressing matter, which must be decided within twenty-four hours.


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[Assistant] Placed his fingertips together and closed his eyes with an air of resignation. Dr. Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light,


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[Assistant] And read in a high cracking voice the following curious old world narrative.


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[Assistant] Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements.


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[Assistant] Yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville,


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[Assistant] And as I had the story from my father who also had it from his,


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[Assistant] I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth.


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[Assistant] And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it.


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[Assistant] That those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously.


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[Assistant] The history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend your attention.


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[Assistant] This manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name.


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[Assistant] Nor can it be again said that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man. This in truth his neighbours might have pardoned,


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[Assistant] Seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts,


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[Assistant] But there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.


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[Assistant] It chanced that this Hugo came to love, if indeed so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name,


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[Assistant] The daughter of a yeoman who held lands near the Baskerville estate.


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[Assistant] But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute


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[Assistant] Would ever avoid him for she feared his evil name.


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[Assistant] So it came to pass that one Michaelmas, this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden.


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[Assistant] A father and brothers being far from home, as he well knew.


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[Assistant] When they had brought her to the hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber.


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[Assistant] While Hugo and his friends sat down to a long corouse, as was their nightly custom.


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[Assistant] Now the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terrible oaths which came up to her from below.


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[Assistant] For they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville when he was in wine were such as might blast the man who said them.


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[Assistant] At last in the stress of her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man.


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[Assistant] For by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered and still covers the south wall,


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[Assistant] She came down from under the eaves and so homeward across the moor.


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[Assistant] There being three leagues betwixt the hall and her father's farm.


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[Assistant] It chanced that some little time later Hugo left his guests to carry food and drink with other worse things, perchance, to his captive, and so found the cage empty and the bird escaped.


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[Assistant] Then, as it would seem, he became as one that hath a devil. For rushing down the stairs into the dining hall,


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[Assistant] He sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenches flying before him,


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[Assistant] And he cried aloud before all the company that he would that very night render his body and soul to the powers of evil if he might but overtake the wench.


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[Assistant] And while the revelers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked, or it may be more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.


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[Assistant] Where at Hugo ran from the house, crying to his grooms that they should saddle his mare and unkennel the pack.


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[Assistant] And giving the hounds a kerchief of the maids, he swung them to the line, and so off, full cry in the moonlight over the moor.


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[Assistant] Now for some time the revelers stood agape, unable to understand all that had been done in such haste.


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[Assistant] But anon, their bemused wits awoke to the nature of the deed which was like to be done upon the moorlands.


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[Assistant] Everything was now in an uproar, some calling for their pistols, some for their horses, and some for another flask of wine, but at length.


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[Assistant] Some sense came back to their crazed minds, and the whole of them, thirteen in number, took course and started in pursuit. The moon shone clear above them.


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[Assistant] And they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she were to reach her own home.


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[Assistant] They had gone a mile or two when they passed one of the night shepherds upon the moorlands.


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[Assistant] And they cried to him to know if he had seen the hunt. And the man, as the story goes, was so crazed with fear that he could scarcely speak.


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[Assistant] But at last he said that he had indeed seen the unhappy maiden with the hounds upon her track. But I have seen more than that, said he, for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare.


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[Assistant] And there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels. So the drunken squires cursed the shepherd and rode onward, but soon their skins turned cold, for there came a galloping across the moor.


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[Assistant] And the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle. Then the revelers rode close together, for a great fear was on them.


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[Assistant] Riding slowly in this fashion they came at last upon the hounds. These though known for their valour and their breed.


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[Assistant] We're whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip, or goil, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some with starting hackles and staring eyes gazing down the narrow valley before them.


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[Assistant] The company had come to a halt. More sober men, as you may guess, than when they started.


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[Assistant] In which stood two of those great stones, still to be seen there?


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[Assistant] And there in the centre lay the unhappy maid where she had fallen, dead of fear and of fatigue.


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[Assistant] But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerva lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil Roysterers.


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[Assistant] But it was that, standing over Hugo and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great black beast shaped like a hound.


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[Assistant] And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville on which, as it turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them, the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life, still screaming across the moor.


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[Assistant] One it is said died that very night of what he had seen, and the other twain were but broken men for the rest of their days. Such is the tale, my sons, of the coming of the Hound.


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[Assistant] Which is said to have plagued the family so sorely ever since.


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[Assistant] If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.


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[Assistant] Nor can it be denied that many of the family have been unhappy in their deaths.


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[Assistant] Which have been sudden, bloody, and mysterious.


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[Assistant] Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence.


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[Assistant] Which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in holy writ. To that providence, my sons, I hereby commend you


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[Assistant] And I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.


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[Assistant] This from Hugo Baskerville to his sons Roger and John.


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[Assistant] With instructions that they say nothing thereof to their sister Elizabeth.


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[Assistant] When Dr Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative,


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[Assistant] Do you not find it interesting? To a collector of fairy tales?


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[Assistant] We will give you something a little more recent. This is the Devon County Chronicle of May the 14th of this year.


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[Assistant] It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, which occurred a few days before that date.


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[Assistant] My friend leaned a little forward and his expression became intent.


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[Assistant] Our visitor readjusted his glasses and began.


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[Assistant] The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable liberal candidate for mid-devin at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.


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[Assistant] Though Sir Charles had resided at Baskerville Hall for a comparatively short period, his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.


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[Assistant] In these days of nouveau riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line


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[Assistant] Sir Charles, as is well known, made large sums of money in South African speculation. More wise than those who go on until the wheel turns against them, he realised his gains and returned to England with them.


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[Assistant] It is only two years since he took up his residence at Baskerville Hall, and it is common talk how large were those schemes of reconstruction and improvement which have been interrupted by his death.


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[Assistant] Being himself childless, it was his openly expressed desire that the whole countryside should within his own lifetime profit by his good fortune.


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[Assistant] And many will have personal reasons for bewailing his untimely end.