Cleon
Beginning another crescendo of competitive screeching
Beware of the carcan!
Sausage-Seller
I denounce you for cowardice.
Cleon
I will tan your hide.
Sausage-Seller
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I will flay you and make a thief's pouch with the skin.
Cleon
I will peg you out on the ground.
Sausage-Seller
I will slice you into mince-meat.
Cleon
I will tear out your eyelashes.
Sausage-Seller
I will slit your gullet.
Demosthenes
[375]
We will set his mouth open with a wooden stick as the cooks do with pigs; we will tear out his tongue, and, looking down his
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gaping throat, will see whether his inside has any pimples.