Barnaby, tapster at Cock and Tails, perfected flairing well before Tom Cruise.

Barnaby, tapster at Cock and Tails, perfected flairing well before Tom Cruise.
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First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 11 July 2013: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Barnaby, tapster at Cock and Tails, perfected flairing well before…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the eleventh day of July, 2013. Finis.

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