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Then my adopted relative I seated in a chair, With amply necessary help, an' sev'ral pounds to spare. Then Seth an' I with dignity bade both the scamps good-day, Advisin' them to gain their bread in some dissimilar way; An' as we thundered down the stairs, with heavy rural tread, I felt that I'd at last come out some several rods ahead.

A. S.

[From Arthur Selwyn's Note-book.]