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Rh "I've tried it, and can only say
 * I'm sure you couldn't do it, e-

ven if you practised night and day, Unless you have a turn that way,
 * And natural ingenuity.

"Shakspeare I think it is who treats
 * Of Ghosts, in days of old,

Who 'gibbered in the Roman streets,' Dressed, if you recollect, in sheets—
 * They must have found it cold.

"I've often spent ten pounds on stuff,
 * In dressing as a Double;

But, though it answers as a puff, It never has effect enough
 * To make it worth the trouble.

"Long bills soon quenched the little thirst
 * I had for being funny.

The setting-up is always worst: Such heaps of things you want at first,
 * One must be made of money!