The Kangaroo twins lived in a tumbledown bedsit, Edwina, the eldest, doing the cooking, and Edward, the youngest by 27½ seconds, doing the cleaning up. The twins were friends with the dogmen, the biggest to the littlest, the fattest to the skinniest, the hairiest to the baldest, the meanest to the nicest. The twins helped the dogmen, the biggest to the littlest, the fattest to the skinniest, the hairiest to the baldest, the meanest to the nicest, rack and tan their eel catch, rubbing coarse salt into the flayed skin. Edwina wore Bedouin sandals made from the softest calfskin, the soles trenched with pebbles, the sides quim with gore. The Corspotium Finistère, in the woodlands above the Elephantine mountains, was home to the bogmen; the sworn enemy of the dogmen.
Over the entrance to the Corspotium Finistère was written Kampets Dolores, a reminder that all is not lost if it was not found to begin with. Luca Berzsenyi played the cimbalom, cradling the hammer on the folds of his cassock. He generally played a mazurka or a jig, sometimes switching in mid-song to an oberek or a kujawiak. The bogmen, not caring at all for the mazurka or the tsymbaly, preferred the less grandiloquent zither and the modest 4-string banjo. The bogmen held an annual Zywiec revival, where all the banjo pickers and zither strummers got together to bring in the late autumn harvest. Zither players came from all around, some from the Beskid mountains, where the zither was considered a sacred instrument, second only to the ophicleide, which was played on Sundays and every third Tuesday. From Podhale, nestled in the Bieszczady mountains a stones throw from Gory Swietokrzyskie, known for its ancient sulfur springs and enormous Pierogis, came the men of the fifth 4-string banjo quadrille, known for their lightening speed picking and jangling 4-string overtures.
Over the entrance to the Corspotium Finistère was written Kampets Dolores, a reminder that all is not lost if it was not found to begin with. Luca Berzsenyi played the cimbalom, cradling the hammer on the folds of his cassock. He generally played a mazurka or a jig, sometimes switching in mid-song to an oberek or a kujawiak. The bogmen, not caring at all for the mazurka or the tsymbaly, preferred the less grandiloquent zither and the modest 4-string banjo. The bogmen held an annual Zywiec revival, where all the banjo pickers and zither strummers got together to bring in the late autumn harvest. Zither players came from all around, some from the Beskid mountains, where the zither was considered a sacred instrument, second only to the ophicleide, which was played on Sundays and every third Tuesday. From Podhale, nestled in the Bieszczady mountains a stones throw from Gory Swietokrzyskie, known for its ancient sulfur springs and enormous Pierogis, came the men of the fifth 4-string banjo quadrille, known for their lightening speed picking and jangling 4-string overtures.
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