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Last week a bull blundered into a small antique shop at rustic Fakenham in Norfolk. Within, pricing china, was Her Majesty, white-haired Queen Mary. Eyeing the bull steadily, Queen Mary retreated three paces while clerks coaxed the animal out, without damage.
“Ah,” sighed the courageous Queen-Empress, “I have often heard of a bull in a china shop, but I have never seen one there before.”
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