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Rh "(If that's a snuff-box on the shelf,"
 * He added with a yawn,

"I'll take a pinch)—next came an Elf, And then a Phantom (that's myself),
 * And last, a Leprechaun.

"One day, some Spectres chanced to call,
 * Dressed in the usual white:

I stood and watched them in the hall, And couldn't make them out at all,
 * They seemed so strange a sight:

"I wondered what on earth they were,
 * That looked all head and sack;

But mother told me not to stare, And then she twitched me by the hair,
 * And punched me in the back.