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THE HOUR-GLASS
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most mischievous thought that ever passed out of a man's mouth.
First Pupil
If he meant all that, I will take an oath that he was spindle-shanked, and cross-eyed, and had a lousy itching shoulder, and that his heart was crosser than his eyes, and that he wrote it out of malice.
Second Pupil
Let's come away and find a better subject.
Fourth Pupil
And maybe now you'll let me choose.
First Pupil
Come.
Wise Man
Were it but true 'twould alter everything
Until the stream of the world had changed its course,
