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The One Hundred and Fifty Divisions

(Jigging)

He is! He is! We do! We do!
This truth is ever new and true!

Noxus Podunkus

(Sinking into his pillows and peacefully closing his eyes.) Quite so! Quite so! We need that knowledge to sustain us in our present ease. It is so comforting! As I often say, what would we do without our dear Questions? (He falls asleep. Seven Dizzards and seven Hoddy-Doddys club and feather him. He resumes.) And now for—ah yes!—let me see—Question—Question (various Dizzards gather about him and point)—Ah, yes! Seven—Question Seven! (Ecstatically.) Let me read this to you, this beautiful Question, the answer to which, as I so often say, reassures us all so much, keeps us all so sweet and content, always. (Raises one hand.) “All is well with the world, is it not? We know that, do we not? It is, is it not?” Come now, all together—One, Two, Three——

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