The message
from Jaques d'Alltrades contains these words:

Best to attend an evening class in bricklaying: it's not really
difficult. I was taught by Old Bob, [1] a brickie's labourer - he was in
his nineties and still labouring. (It got a bit much for him when he was
ninety eight (IIRC) and he got a job cleaning Mr. Whippy vans.)

Missing footnote:

[1] Not as brewed by Ridleys, but quite as good.

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Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
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