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Yet you ate up the goose, with the bones and the beak:
Pray, how did you man-age to do it?'

"'In my youth,' said his fath-er, 'I took to the law
And ar-gued each case with my wife;
And the ver-y great strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has last-ed the rest of my life.'

"'You are old,' said the youth; 'one would hard-ly sup-pose

That your eye was as stead-y as ev-er;