Mr. Oldbuck and his ladye-love having been tried and condemned, are led to the stake.
"Witchcraft! That's the devil's flour bag."
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passes his ladye-love off as a sack of flour.
Naturally.
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Meanwhile the citizen, who had complained to the police, and having no intruder to deliver up, is arrested as a trickster or buffoon.
Snitches get stitches.
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Is dug up by birds of prey,
Birds acting like dogs? That's a dird. H*ckin' rare.
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Mr. 0ldbuck amuses himself by drowning the porter who had pursued them.
"Why did you kill that man when you were free, Oldbuck?" "For the lulz."
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He turns over a new leaf.
He's quite talented at giving up and starting over.
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His horse bursting with fat, Mr. Oldbuck is obliged to return home on foot.
Is this a fart joke? This looks like a fart joke.
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Mr. Oldbuck rescues his horse from a ditch in which it has lain a fortnight.
Wait, how long was he in that cave for? Oldbuck seems to be an all or nothing sort of person.
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Mr. Oldbuck drinks hemlock. Luckily it is only vegetable soup.
How do you confuse the two...
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For eight-and-forty hours he believes himself dead.
This reminds me of the moments in older animation such as Looney Tunes where the character dramatically states, "Goodbye cruel world!" or something similar. Shows that that type of exaggerated humor has been around for a while.
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