For you all love the screw-guns-the screw guns they all love you! So when we take tea with a few guns, o'course you will know what to do-hoo! hoo! Jest send in your Chief an' surrender-it's worse if you fights or you runs: You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!" -Rudyard Kipling "The Screw Guns"
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