Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 76
And there must be, beside those, ten thousand as stout;And before you could pull every separate sprout,I would be everlastingly—gone up the spout!It may amuse you and the crowd, I ve no doubt,But its murder for me ! Take the crown,—take the gout!Take the land with its gold, take the sea with its… … Crying, Crickets ! If this is the way that you stripA beard off without using the scissors to snip,Or a razor to shave, or an edged tool to clip,I have got all I want of your shaving ! Why, just see, you have pulled only ten bris-tles out, Nay, I want not your crown : work is plenty for me;High…
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