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[00:01.46]Lesson 52
[00:03.42]Mud is mud
[00:11.85]Why did Harry decide to give up his little game?
[00:18.09]My cousin, Harry,
[00:19.57]keeps a large curiously-shaped bottle on permanent display in his study.
[00:25.32]Despite the fact that the bottle is tinted a delicate shade of green,
[00:30.20]an observant visitor would soon notice that it is filled with what looks like a thick, greyish substance.
[00:38.96]If you were to ask Harry what was in the bottle, he would tell you that it contained perfumed mud.
[00:46.91]If you expressed doubt or surprise,
[00:49.42]he would immediately invite you to smell it and then to rub some into your skin.
[00:55.66]The brief experiment would dispel any further doubts she might have.
[01:00.28]The bottle really does contain perfumed mud.
[01:04.55]How Harry came into the possession of this outlandish stuff makes an interesting story which he is fond of relating.
[01:12.92]Furthermore, the acquisition of this bottle cured him of a bad habit he had been developing for years.
[01:20.78]Harry used to consider it a great joke to go into expensive cosmetic shops and make outrageous requests for goods that do not exist.
[01:30.96]He would invent fanciful names on the spot.
[01:34.25]On entering a shop,
[01:35.73]he would ask for a new perfume called 'Scented Shadow' or for 'insoluble bath cubes'.