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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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The San Francisco manufacturer of a lotion advertises as follows:

He built a bower of leafy sprays
  To shield his darling from the heat.
“Would we might live thus all our days,”
  He said, reclining at her feet.
Alas, poor love-blind, foolish folk,
  To hold of life so crude a notion!
The bower was built of poison oak
  And they had to use Blank’s healing lotion.

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