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Then he sang at the top of his voice:— “In the morrnin’ I’ the morrnin’ by the black van— We’ll toodle up to Vine Street I’ the morrnin’! Yon’s my own composeetion, but I’m not vain. We’ll go home together, laddie, we’ll go home together.” And he sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’ to show that he meant it.		This is from “Brugglesmith” in Many Inventions. The story of an all-nighter across London, our hero apparently sober and his acquired companion very much the opposite. The adventure begins with the men contesting control of a dinghy in the Thames and ends with the definitely drunker of the two fighting in the street with a bell-pull. One of RK’s great farces.