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Cocksure

Posted on June 12, 2016June 2, 2023 by Simon J. Wood

‘Parker’, that’s what they calls me, on account of I’m a nosy sod, know what I mean. Anyways, I’m a pot-man at the Universe club and the guvnor tells me to ‘keep an eye out for anything untoward’, know what I mean?

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