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WHAT TOTTLES MEANT.
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The blissful Honey-moon is past:
The Pair have settled down at last:
Mamma-in-law their home will share,
And make their happiness her care.
"Your income is an ample one:
Go it, my children!" {And they went it).
"I rayther think this kind of fun
Won't last!" said Tottles [and he meant it).

They took a little country-box——
A box at Covent Garden also:
They lived a life of double-knocks,
Acquaintances began to call so:
Their London house was much the same
(It took three hundred, clear, to rent it):
"Life is a very jolly game!"
Cried happy Tottles {and he meant it).

'Contented with a frugal lot'
{He always used that phrase at Gunter's),
He bought a handy little yacht——
A dozen serviceable hunters——
The fishing of a Highland Loch——
A sailing-boat to circumvent it——
"The sounding of that Gaelic 'och'
Beats me!" said Tottles (and he meant it)."

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