AS IT HAPPENED
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His creditors gobbled all his goods
And set them up for sale;
But the cash they brought did not suffice
So they marched him off to jail.—
And set them up for sale;
But the cash they brought did not suffice
So they marched him off to jail.—
The "duffer" shook his jolly sides
With a hearty, merry laugh;
And recalled the time when he "so shocked
The insipid city calf."
"I pay my bills as I go along—
I owe no man," said he;
"There's no insect born that can compete
With a biped such as he!"
With a hearty, merry laugh;
And recalled the time when he "so shocked
The insipid city calf."
"I pay my bills as I go along—
I owe no man," said he;
"There's no insect born that can compete
With a biped such as he!"