Quote:
You can't depend on mermaids, except for keeping their own secrets; they're better than oysters at that.
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The mer-dog, telling Roverandom of his adventures. Interestingly, one version that I have includes an amusing typo in this sentence - "they're better than oysters at
chat". Quite the opposite meaning!
By the way, it was the word "oysters" that gave it away - it wasn't hard to figure out which work would contain that!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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