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FURNITURE IN DR. PRIESTLEY'S STUDY.


And all, like controversial writing,
Were born with teeth, and sprung up fighting.

"But what is this," I hear you cry,
"Which saucily provokes my eye?"—
A thing unknown, without a name,
Born of the air and doomed to flame.