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 1     I|     himself a gentleman, the whole joke would possibly cost about
 2     I|         rising to the level of the joke. He had not expected it,
 3     I|           his throat, for it is no joke to swallow a four-legged
 4     I|          it."~ ~It was a screaming joke, no doubt; yet suddenly
 5     I|          was terribly alarmed. The joke had taken a decidedly serious
 6     I|        though he loved a practical joke to excess, he did not like
 7     I|        oddity who dearly loved his joke. But the greatest joke he
 8     I|         his joke. But the greatest joke he ever perpetrated was
 9    II| soap-bubble, the whole Mississippi joke collapsed, and Monsieur
10   III|          order.~ ~Now, this was no joke, for Master Jock had the
11   III|       Master Jock had hit upon the joke of dressing the gipsy Vidra
12   III|          consider that a very good joke. I don't know whether you
13   III|       thought this a most original joke. It was plain to every eye,
14   III|            whom, after this little joke was over, the servants removed
15   III|         only have been part of the joke. How comical it would be,
16   III|         with Mike. What a splendid joke it will be to present the
17   III|           not have parted with his joke for an empire.~ ~The clock
18   III|   signet-ring is my crest."~ ~This joke pleased Master Jock even
19   III|        thrust upon him by way of a joke.[Pg 89]~ ~ ~ ~
20    IV|       already begun to ask her, in joke, when she was going to wear
21    VI|         This lad seems disposed to joke with us," said he.~ ~"I
22   VII|            guests, who kept up the joke afterwards till dinner-time.
23   VII|          every conceivable sort of joke capable of making him roar
24   VII|           Miska Horhi, by way of a joke, also joined himself to
25  VIII|           guardian, this is only a joke, surely, or, if it be a
26    XI|       neighbours, and a delightful joke it was too.~ ~For there'