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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366001" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ventriloquist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An angry roar from the cheaper seats<br>Had followed them both outside, <br>Out of the rear, by the actor’s door<br>They looked for a place to hide, <br>Lord Jimmy’s coat had seen better days, <br>His shoes were muddy and dull, <br>And Bodger’s hat was crushed and dismayed<br>As he held it close to his skull! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Look what you’ve brought us to, sir, ’ he said, <br>Flapping his wooden jaw, <br>‘Out in the cold on a Saturday night; <br>It never does rain, but it pours! ’<br>Jimmy had tucked him right under his arm<br>And kept to the brickworks wall, <br>The shadows were long on the Old Kent Road<br>As the rain had begun to fall! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Oh Great! ’ the Bodger had spat in the dark, <br>As he scraped his head on a brick, <br>Taking a layer of varnish off, <br>And making him feel quite sick! <br>‘It’s cold and wet, and my head will swell<br>If the rain gets into my wood…’<br>‘If you don’t shut up, I’ll brain you first! <br>Let that be understood! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So off they marched, on into the night<br>To look for a place to sleep, <br>A laundry, stables, a bed of straw, <br>A station, hotel, or keep.<br>The rain set in as a drizzle out there<br>And soaked to the skin and bone, <br>Soaked through their coats to the varnish and wood<br> If the truth of the case be known. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I told you that ‘Bodger’s’ a lousy name, <br>You know you can’t mention a ‘B’, <br>The audience knew you were moving your lips, <br>Every ‘b’, every ‘v’, every ‘p’.’<br>‘You think you’re so smart, ’ Lord Jimmy replied, <br>‘I’m sick of you flapping your jaw, <br>If you can do better…’ - he stopped and he sighed, <br>His gaze cast down to the floor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They walked and they walked through Bermondsey<br>Where the might of the Thames still flows, <br>While Bodger had wriggled his eyebrows once, <br>And sniffed through his dripping red nose.<br>‘I hope that you’re planning to dry me out, <br>My clothes are starting to shrink! ’<br>‘I’ll turn you into a scarecrow, then; <br>They’ll be laughing at that, I think! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Dummy had flung him about at that, <br>And clocked Jimmy under the jaw, <br>Who fell in a heap like a worthless rat, <br>While Bodger stood tall, and swore, <br>He kicked and he rolled him over the bank<br>And into the swirling Thames, <br>The universe spun at the horror he’d done, <br>They’d always been known as ‘friends’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord Jimmy just floated out under a bridge, <br>His face to the evening sky, <br>A look of surprise on the lids of his eyes<br>As his overcoat drifted by, <br>His body of walnut, his fingers of pine<br>And his head, finely chiselled in teak, <br>While Bodger awoke in the skin of a bloke, <br>Broke his heart for the rest of the week!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Had followed them both outside, 
Out of the rear, by the actor’s door
They looked for a place to hide, 
Lord Jimmy’s coat had seen better days, 
His shoes were muddy and dull, 
And Bodger’s hat was crushe..."></div>
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