Author:  Mark Helprin
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The last time the Right Honourable Gentleman raised the accusation about the policies of this government forcing his constituents to resort to inedible foods-in that case, as I remember, it was ants, earwigs, and glowworms-the National Health looked very seriously into the matter, and their inspectors. . . ." "Division! Division!" cried out some who had got the scent of blood, and Mallet Scuffs himself, successfully diverted, cried out, "Weevils, too! Weevils and grubs!" "Their inspectors. . . ." "Weevils, too, weevils and grubs! Weevils, too, weevils and grubs!" chanted a Marxist anti-missile faction.

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