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Malone meurt Segment 521, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-7-2, f. 70r)
On aurait peut-être mieux fait et disait même parfois, On aurait
peut-ê sans doute mieux fait de lui faire apprendre un métier manuel.
Malone meurt Segment 521, version 2 (Minuit 1951, p. 33)
Et il poussait quelquefois l'étourderie jusqu'à dire, On aurait sans doute mieux fait de lui donner un métier manuel.

Malone Dies Segment 521, version 3 (MS-TCD-4662, f. 18r)
And sometimes he was carried away to the point of saying, It might have been better to give him a manual profession have him taught a manual profession.

Malone Dies Segment 521, version 4 (MS-WU-MSS008-2-47, f. 21r)
And sometimes he was carried away to the point of saying, It might have been better to have had him taught[⁁] put him to[ put him to] a trade.

Malone Dies Segment 521, version 5 (MS-HRC-SB-4-3, f. 21r)
And sometimes he was carried away to the point of saying, It might have been better to have had him taught put him to a trade.

Malone Dies Segment 521, version 6 (MS-UoR-1227-7-11-1, f. 21r)
And sometimes he was carried away to the point of saying, It might have been better to have had him taught put him to a trade.
Malone Dies Segment 521, version 7 (Grove Press 1956, p. 16)
And sometimes he was carried away to the point of saying, It might have been better to have put him to a trade.
Malone meurt Segment 521, version 8 (Minuit 1971, p. 31)
Et il poussait quelquefois l'étourderie jusqu'à dire, On aurait sans doute mieux fait de lui donner un métier manuel.