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 1     I,    XIII|      in hand. That's the best joke I ever heard! How vexed
 2    II,       I|     much amused. Was it not a joke that she had climbed up
 3    II,      II|       thought, and I tried to joke the matter away.~ ~"Let
 4    II,       V|       they mean to play a bad joke on you."~ ~I looked up amazed.
 5    II,     VII|      has betrayed this little joke?"~ ~I looked him innocently
 6    II,     VII|     is a pity. Such a capital joke it would have been, and
 7    II,     VII|     you feel offended by this joke?"~ ~I laughed outright. "
 8    II,     VII| nothing. We have both had our joke, and now allow me to beg
 9    II,     VII|   some other little practical joke, and part of the programme;
10    II,    VIII|       least, because I like a joke, and look everybody in the