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Past the Presidency and the public park, the Theatres Maxine Bush, Eden-Garden and Apollo, along the Avenida and the Jazz Halls by the wharf, past little suburban hops, and old, deserted churchyards where bloom geraniums, through streets of squalid houses, and onward skirting pleasure lawns and orchards, bibbitty-bobbitty, beneath the sovereign brightness of the sky, crawled the Farananka tram.
Surveying the landscape listlessly through the sticks of her fan, Miss Edna Mouth grew slightly bored -- alas, poor child; couldst thou have guessed the blazing brightness of they Star, thou wouldst doubtless have been more alert!