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DES PERCHES[1]

Daily he goeth out beyond the limits of the city into lonesome and swampy places where copperheads and rattlesnakes abound.

And there he cutteth him clothes-poles, wherewith he marcheth through the city in the burning glare of the sun; singing

  1. Item, August 30, 1880.