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• One thousand such, one thinks, would be only nine
• The ref does not agree to such sorts of employment
• What the ref does with his whistle, yet he won't do it
• One gives employment to you and me first (4)
• 'A thousand such would be only nine, if one comes to think about it (4)'
• A thousand of these are only nine as one employs them
• They come by the thousand to be the employers of nine
• If they come by the thousand there's only nine
• Takes drugs for Ulster's odd characters
• Finds work for
• Makes fun of playfully
• Gets high, say
• Customs of the American Middle West
• Ponders initial loss by customs
• Habitually employs buses that fail to start