Cambridge Pieces by Samuel Butler
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Some day perhaps a Dean, but as thou say'st
He is indeed an excellent young man - Enter BUTLER suddenly, without a coat or anything on his head, rushing through the cloisters, bearing a cup, a bottle of cider, four lemons, two nutmegs, half a pound of sugar and a nutmeg grater. Curtain falls on the confusion of BUTLER and the horror-stricken dismay of the two Deans. THE BATTLE OF ALMA MATER I The Temperance commissioners In awful conclave sat, Their noses into this to poke To poke them into that - In awful conclave sat they, And swore a solemn oath, That snuff should make no Briton sneeze, That smokers all to smoke should cease, They swore to conquer both. II |
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