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Another Pearls elaborate pun

Today’s Pearls Before Swine:

 

Pig sets up an elaborate pun (on “Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light?”) and Rat confronts the cartoonist.

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One Response to “Another Pearls elaborate pun”

  1. Ben Zimmer Says:
    April 6, 2014 at 9:07 am | Reply

    Works best for those with the don/dawn merger, of course.

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