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“By cracky, they’d be proud,” Olive said of her parents.

"Stung, by cracky," was all I could say, and feeling rather blue I went to the barn where the team was, stroked them and hoped for the best.

“By cracky, boys!” he exclaimed.

All this is doled out as solemnly as a lantern-slide lecture in German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether.

That was the kind of a thing I wanted to make a bid for, and, by cracky, I pulled it off.