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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Proverbial Philosophy in New Dress

Teach not your parent’s parent to extract
  The golden contents of the egg by suction.
The good old lady can the feat enact
  Quite irrespective of your kind induction.

A member of the feathered federation,
  A prisoner by your palm and digits made,
Is worth at least a couple of his brothers
  Who in your leafy arbor seek the shade.

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