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42 "'Twas a great liberty to take!"
 * (I fired up like a rocket.)

"He did it just for punning's sake— 'The man,' says Johnson, 'that would make
 * A pun, would pick a pocket!"'

"A man," said he, "is not a king."
 * I argued for a while,

And did my best to prove the thing— The Phantom merely listening
 * With a contemptuous smile.

At last, when, breath and patience spent,
 * I had recourse to smoking—

"Your aim," he said, "is excellent: But—when you call it argument—
 * Of course you're only joking?"