Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

31 The Sixth and Last Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth

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“Tell us, old man, how this then happened and what made you for several days the whole time ‘Skoohiatchiny’ and ‘Tsirikooakhtz,’ or as the three-brained beings of the planet Earth would say, made you just ‘grumble’ and be ‘irritable’ like your friend there, Dame Bess.”