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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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A Friend in Need

The baker and his customer
  A kindred nature show;
The latter needs the “staff of life,”
  The former kneads the dough!

Retaliation

An empty-headed youth having caught a young lady off her guard on the first of April, she retorted in the following lines:

I pardon, sir, the trick you played me
When an April fool you made me,
Since only one day I appear
To be what you are all the year.

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