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Puss-in-Boots.
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Make love to her, and praise her beauteous eyes. And, master, list to me! Whate'er you hear or see, Be very sure you never show surprise.

[Curtain.]

Act III. Scene I.

SCENE: Interior of Ogre's castle. PUSS-IN-BOOTS discovered.

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Wolfgang: "Blood and thunder!!"

Puss: I'm here at last! Much danger's past; But such long tramps my liking hardly suits; 'Twas wisdom when I guessed That it was surely best To secure these blessed, helpful old top-boots. I was made to understand That all this beauteous land Belonged to this man-eating old Wolfgang; But as down the road I sped, To each laborer I said: Your life upon your answer now doth hang. When the sovereign comes this way, When he questions, you, straightway, “This land belongs to Carabas," must say.

[Awful growling and noise heard, and Wolfgang enters.]

WOLFGANG: Blood and thunder! Who, I wonder,

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