I don't know if you have ever seen a tiger of the jungle drawing a deep breath preparatory to doing a swan… — P.G. Wodehouse
I don't know if you have ever seen a tiger of the jungle drawing a deep breath preparatory to doing a swan dive and landing with both the feet on the backbone of one of the minor fauna. Probably not, nor, as a matter of fact, have I.
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