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Butterflies, three blind mice, eight little maids in a box. He met them, |
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he kept them, he carefully puts them away for the rainy day, when |
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nothing's left, no nothing's left to collect. {Whistling} |
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And sometimes he'd look in his catalog, and it was like the whole wide |
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world bundled up and waved, and he'd saved those waves, and he'd count |
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them. He'd count them, cos he loved counting things. 3 french hens, 2 |
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turtles doves, a monkey in a big palm tree, a bunch of green bananas that |
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are never ripe, an orangutan who says I love you and you can pull a string |
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and it grins and it, it's a happy little thing, but it doesn't say much, |
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so it isn't much good company. 15,934 plastic facsimilies of the Eiffel |
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Tower, twenty percent of which were broken because they were made in |
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Taiwan so they weren't built to last at all, and anyway the proportions |
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were completely wrong, because they don't have the Eiffel Tower in |
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Taiwan. All they have is pagodas. And he had many bagodas too. He had |
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twenty-eight bagodas, which he shrunk with water and kept them all in a |
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big trunk which he dug out from the sea from a huge wreck of this old |
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galleon, and he kept galleons too, many, many galleons with skeletons and |
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lots of treasure, and he collected them. He collected all the treasure in |
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all the world, and he owned all the banks. |
