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ALICE'S ADVENTURES

"'You are old, Widow Nolen,' the young man said,
"'Yet your mind is as keen as a knife;
"With facts and with figures you've filled up my head.
"Should you do it at your time of life?'

"'In my youth,' said the sage, as he stopped for a drink,
"'I was dull as an elderly cow;
"And repeated each course so often, I think
"That I ought to remember them now.'

"'You are old,' said the youth, 'and you doubtless are rich.
"I suppose you can do as you please;

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