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magic charms like Doctor Know-It-AIl;
brainswere all I had, man! When she said:
"Answer this question quickly, or you're dead:
What mother eats up all her children, hey?"
Ididn't dance in circles; Ididn't say:
"I know the answer, ma'am, but it's outlandish,
so I won't tell it." She'd have made a sandwich
out of me if I'd pulled those old tricks!
Intelligencewas what it took to fix
her wagon! I said, "Nothing to it, Grampus:
the mom that eats her kids is Mother Campus --
matter of fact, she's having you for supperl"

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN:[Aside]
"Hearing this, the fearsome beast threw up her
paws and died as if a spear were in her
heart,"et cetera. /'//throw up my dinner
if I have to hear that bragging tale again.

TALIPED:No clairvoyance, Gynander: just my brain,
my passèd human brain -- that's what it took!

GYNANDER: Then use your passèd brain to find the crook,
since you're so good at riddles. Here's a clue:
Know yourself.Begin your search with you.
You'll see the man you're after in a mirror;
take your falseface off --you'll see him clearer.

TALIPED: We see a flunking traitor; that's what we see!
A nasty, scheming, blind old AC/DC
wife's brother's
in cahoots with you, I'll bet --and others
too, no doubt. I see your pretty plot:
you'll pin the rap on me, and when you've got