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AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER.
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The Lawyer—his lies are conventional.
And as for the Poor Sort—why mention all
Obstructions that leave barred and bolted
Access to the brains of each dolt-head?"

9.
He ended, you wager? Not half! A bet?
Precedence to males in the alphabet!
Still, disposed of Man's A. B. C., there's X.
Y. Z. want assistance,—the Fair Sex!
How much may be said in excuse of
Those vanities—males see no use of—
From silk shoe on heel to laced poll's-hood!
What's their frailty beside our own falsehood?