Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 27, October 1, 1870 by Various
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page 46 of 78 (58%)
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Like ALADIN'S lamp, you can
By merely givin' a rub, Bring around most any man, By fillin' him up with grub. But, most noble cuss of the Realm, I must lay aside my goose quil, and go and do the family chores. But afore I close this letter let me speak a word for your noble prisoner, L. NAPOLEON, Esq. Deal gently with him. Altho' he plade the wrong card when he pitched into you, recollect the old maxum: "Never bute a feller when he is down." France is better, in a good many respects, for things LEWIS done for 'em. But he has gone to the shades, and SHAKSPEER aptly says: "The evil which men do, Lives a darn site longer than The evil they don't do." Which sentiment shode that old SHAKE was a hulsail dealer in human nater. Hopin' that in the days of your prosperity, you wont forgit your poor relations, sich as _mothers-in-law_ and the like, and when they come to |
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