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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Ended in Smoke

A maid unto her lover sternly said:
“Forego the Indian weed before we wed,
For smoke take flame; I’ll be that flame’s bright fanner;
To have your Anna, give up your Havana.”
The wretch, when thus she brought him to the scratch,
Lit the cigar and threw away the match.

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