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 profession, and confined not himself from doing good to others when it did not infringe upon the community of which he was a member.

His next stratagem was to become a mad man; so stripping himself quite naked he threw a blanket over him, and then he was, "Poor mad Tom whom the foul fiend has led through fire and through flame! through fire and whirlpool, over bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew; set ratsbane for his porridge and made him proud at heart, to ride on a bay trotting horse over four inch bridges; to curse his own shadow for a traitor; who eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water newt: that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, swallows the old rat and ditch dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool;

O do de do de do de! bless them from whirlwind fiar-blasting, and raking! Do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes—There I could have him