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His creditors gobbled all his goods And set them up for sale; But the cash they brought did not suffice So they marched him off to jail.—
The "duffer" shook his jolly sides With a hearty, merry laugh; And recalled the time when he "so shocked The insipid city calf." "I pay my bills as I go along— I owe no man," said he; "There's no insect born that can compete With a biped such as he!"
