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36 Matron had clones for every member of staff, including herself. They had not been created using Winchflat’s new Special 3D Photocopier, but by an older, much more dangerous system that often produced clones that were nothing like the originals.
37 Not including a seventy-mile beach in north Queensland. If you add that in, then there were fifteen more grains of sand than grains of Orkward Warlock.
38 Come on, Orkward Warlock was vile. He doesn’t deserve a happy ending. Anyway, how could his parents have anything to do with him when he was blown up into a million, billion little pieces. Surely that’s way too many pieces to ever be put back together again. Or is it? And it’s not true that Orkward was the devil’s son. His dad really was the milkman, and a milkman disguise is much too ordinary for the Prince of Darkness. Or is it?
* Or thirty-five more if you include the two really rude verses that have been banned by the Parents Committee, who know how bad the verses are from singing them when they were at Quicklime’s.
And so on for thirty-three more verses.*
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