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The Breitmann Ballads

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of The Breitmann Ballads is here in full — 149 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.
Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.
Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.
- Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.
Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.
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The Breitmann Ballads

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of The Breitmann Ballads is here in full — 149 sentences across 30 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/29 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.
Line 2
Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.
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Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.
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- Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.
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Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

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Same adjective US /seɪm/

Identical; not different.

From this reading “Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.”

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5

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From this reading ------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.

a

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

ad

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

all

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

and

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Arbeiter-Halle

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

ash

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

asses

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

B

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

be

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

blackguards

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

Boot

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Breitmann

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

brinting

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

burgers

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

classes

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

Coloompian

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

consisd

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

dake

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

dark

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

dat

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

de

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

dem

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

Demokratisch

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

Dere's

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Deutsche

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

Dey

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

dinked

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

dis

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Dish

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

do

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

doorn

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

found

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

free

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

from

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

gekommene

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

gife

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

glucky

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Gontrifed

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Got

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

hand't

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

hat

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

he

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

he'd

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

HELD

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From this reading ------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.

hid

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

Himmel

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

himself

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

hit

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

hoppinet

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

HOW

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From this reading ------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.

if

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

im

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

in

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

ish

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

it

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

learn

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

lighthood

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

loock

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

make

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

man

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

MASS

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From this reading ------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.

Massenversammlung

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

may

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

mean

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

meeding

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

MEETING

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From this reading ------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.

mit

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

N

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

naturalizationisds

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

new

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

nodings

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

not

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

Now

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

of

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

on

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

oov

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

or

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

out

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

pad

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

pefore

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

pills

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

plackarts

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

Repooblican

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

sameadjectiveUS /seɪm/

Identical; not different.

From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

say

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

scaped

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

Schmit

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

sendet

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

shange

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Sharman

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

shoost

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

shore

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

should

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

shtick

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

sin

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

so

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

some

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From this reading Dey hat sendet out some plackarts to de Deutsche burgers all (N.B.

spite

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

THE

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From this reading ------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.

THEY

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From this reading ------------------ 5.-HOW THEY HELD THE MASS MEETING.

to

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

und

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

us

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

vall

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

vas

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

vhere

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

vorldt

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

Vouldt

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From this reading - Dish ish not mean blackguards, boot de pills dey shtick on de vall), To say dat a Massenversammlung - or a meeding of all dem asses- Vouldt be held in de Arbeiter-Halle, to consisd of de Sharman classes.

weiss

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From this reading Now dey gife de brinting of de pills to a new gekommene man, Who dinked dat Demokratisch vas de same ash Repooblican: Got im Himmel weiss vhere he'd hid himself on dis free Coloompian shore Dat he scaped de naturalizationisds, und hand't found out pefore.

who

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

yooncture

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From this reading Dere's nodings in dis vorldt so pad, ash all oov us may learn, Boot may shange from dark to lighthood, if loock should dake a doorn; So it hoppinet mit Breitmann, who in spite of sin and Schmit, Gontrifed ad shoost dis yooncture do make a glucky hit.

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