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"You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair is exceedingly white: And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

"In my youth," father William replied to his son, "I feared it injure the brain But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again."