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"They ate the wooden leg! " "A little wooden-leg stew, please! " Then a voice imitating a woman's: "Waiter, a piece of well-done mec without pepper, please!"
It was a rare night one of these strange phrases didn't shatter the silence. Clousiot and I wondered what it was all about.