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The other curiosity is a recent impromptu effort to portray, in one verse of seventeen syllables, the last degree of devil-may-care-poverty,—perhaps

Square	Triangle

the brave misery of the wandering student;—and I very much doubt whether the effort could be improved upon:—

Nusundaru
Kagashi no kasa ni
Amé kyū nari.

—“Heavily pours the rain on the hat that I stole from the scarecrow!”