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[Illustration: YE YONGE MANNE OF MANHATTAN.

Ye Yonge Manne is born, and his parents hasten with him to ye abode of
ye BROWN, praying that he may be christened among ye upper tenne.

And when ye Yonge Manne takes a daughter of ye upper tenne to wife, ye
BROWN sees that he is married in ye BROWN his church.

Ye BROWN demands if ye parents put in their coal in ye Summer time; and,
being told that they do, he has ye Yonge Manne christened in his church,
and when he grows up ye BROWN introduces him into Society.

And when ye Yonge Manne he dies, ye BROWN arranges with all ye gardeners
and black-goods men. And so, ye Yonge Manne, he is done entirely BROWN.]

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THE BACHELOR'S MOVING-DAY.
AHA!
A mere half-hour's bother!
Suppose I were a father--
A luckless wight, called "Pa"!

I'd say,
"Now curse the restless rover
That first (despising clover!)