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"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet: Yet you eat all the goose, with the bones and the beak— Pray, how did you manage to do it?"

"In my youth," said the old man, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife, And, , Has lasted the rest of my life."