It begins in the early industrial age, where the bare-footed sellers of matches used to keep themselves warm by burning tiny bits of their bodies a bit at a time.As industrialisation progressed, chestnut sellers, unshod but with access to better technology, invented tap-dancing and, of course, bag-juggling.
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Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace,
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