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excerpt: "‘way back many moons ago when the skics were clear and the air was baluy and warm, I decided I would like to do some Gold Digging, So I got out the old skein of skin and a bit of bone and spinach dye and sent off by pigeon post to the Old Country for…"
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# Gold Diggings

‘way back many moons ago when the skics were clear and the air was baluy and warm, I decided I would like to do some Gold Digging, So I got out the old skein of skin and a bit of bone and spinach dye and sent off by pigeon post to the Old Country for the material to go after some Gold. ‘twas not long till the answer got back to me in the form of a card to plug into the end of my QL mule (I almost said Ass.) so I climbed on the back of my ole fricnd and off to the hills went 1.