He said he'd "busted up his cheque"
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(What's that, I'd like to know?) And now his happiness was wrecked, `To work he'd got to go.= He'd known the time, not long ago, `When half the year he'd spend In idleness, and comfort too, `A-camping in a "bend."= No need to tread the weary track, `Or work his strength away;
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