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Come nightfall, the eerie silence is often pierced by the woeful bleat of a wandering burro.

The stock market that came in like a roaring lion at the start of the 1920s went out like a bleating lamb at decade’s end.

Meanwhile, Michael Giacchino’s score soars between bleats of triumph and barbershop-chorus charm, a combination that can sound like an automobile show unveiling the first convertible with tail fins.

The animals bleated from behind a wooden fence.

"Too many non-working holidays in America," the alleged champion of the working class bleated on Truth Social.