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136 Or, perchance, in years to follow,

I shall watch your plump sides hollow,

See Carnifex (gone lame) become a corse,

See old age at last o'erpower you,

And the Station Pack devour you,

I shall chuckle then, Undertaker's Horse!

But to insult, gibe, and quest, I've

Still the hideously suggestive

Trot that hammers out the unrelenting text,

And I hear it hard behind me

In what place soe'er I find me:—

"Sure to catch you sooner or later. Who's the next?"