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[1521] greatcoat is empty (apart from its usual and occasional ^[⁁]casual contents) and
the six stones I have just sucked, one after the other, are all in the
left pocket of my greatcoat. [1522] Pausing then, and concentrating, so as not
to make a balls of it, I transfer to the right pocket of my greatcoat,
in which there are no stones left, the five stones in the right pocket
of my trousers, which I replace by the five stones in the left pocket
of my trousers, which I replace by the six stones in the left pocket of
my greatcoat.

[1523] At this stage then the left pocket of my greatcoat is
again empty of stones, while the right pocket of my greatcoat is again
replenished ^{[⁁]supplied}, and in the right way, that is to say with other stones than
those I have just sucked. These other stones I then begin to suck, one
after the other, and to transfer as I go along to the left pocket of my
greatcoat, being absolutely certain, as far as one can be in an affair
of this kind, that I do not suck ^{[⁁]am not sucking} the same stones of ^as a moment before, but
others.

[1524] And when the right pocket of my greatcoat is again empty (of
stones), and the five I have just sucked are all without exception in
the left pocket of my greatcoat, then I proceed to the same re-distribution ^{[ ]}
as a moment before, or a similar redistribution, that is to say I transfer
to the right pocket of my greatcoat, now again available, the five stones
in the right pocket of my trousers, which I replace by the six stones in
the left pocket of my trousers, which I replace by the five stones in the
left pocket of my greatcoat. [1525] And there I am ready to begin again.

[1526] Do I
have to go on? [1527] No, for it is clear that after the next series, of sucks
and transfers, I shall be back where I started, that is to say with the
first six stones back in the supply pocket, the next five in the right
pocket of my stinking old trousers and finally the last five in left
pocket of same, and my sixteen stones will have ben^en sucked once at least
in impeccable succession, not one sucked twice, not one left unsucked.
[1528] It is true that the next time I could scarcely hope to suck my stones in