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People would say that 1 wasn't sane.
Why should there such a difference be
Between Ben Franklin, Esquire, and me?

I can see steam move a kettle-Jid
Quite as well as James Wall did,
And I tun explain about engines, too,
Bigger arid better than Watt ever knew :
But somehow he took all the praise,
And I’m neglected nowaday?,

Still, what mikes me feel the worst
Is Adam's renown for being’ first.
That was easy enough, you know ;
It was just a thing that happened so,
And rav sister savs, ,c If it had been me
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J wouldn’t have touched the apple-tree.”
That’s so. If she sees a snake to-day.
She gives a scream and she scoots away.
To write such tilings as Shakespeare’s plays
Was not so hard in Queen Bess's days,
But now, when everything has been done,
I cannot think of a single one
To bring a hoy to wealth and tame,
Ir'ri a regular, downright, burning shame!
P. S. “ When it's fme I shall play base-bill;
For you know it never wonld do at all
To forger about " Jack ” who becomes, they ::ay.
A very did! hoy, without plenty of play.
But, wait!— wbc’n a rainy Saturday coetick,
As soon as I’ve 5 rushed Monday’s sums.
I’m going to build a great dying-machine
That will make T. Edison Jook -gre^n i
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