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V. But 'twas not yet too late to mend;

He got dumb-bells, and shyly

He took the counsel of a friend

("Experimentum vili")

And tried them first on his left arm,

And found they acted like a charm!



VI. Much bigger waxed his biceps, but

When this left arm was finished,

The left lobe of his occiput

Had sensibly diminished;

So then he went it, right and all,

To make his nut symmetrical!



VII. His nut soon got so hardened that

It hurt you when you hit it;

Nor could his hatter find a hat

(Already made) to fit it,

So marvellously small it grew,

As all may judge from this back view.



VIII. At length a happy day came round

(Which I was there, and drew it)

When Richard lifted from the ground

A paving-stone, and threw it

Almost one foot three-quarters high!

And that with ladies standing by!!

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