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Bless me, what a number of queer names,-- Mr. Lion, Mr. Crow, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Talbot, Miss Patridge, Mr. Herring, Mr. Woodcock, and Monsieur Grenouille--Ah, dat is for me--Six- pence, if you please---Ah, dat is too much; I will not give you more as threepence hapenny; if you will not let me have him for dat, you may keep him--Your letter Mr. O'Flannagen, is ninepence more--What forIt's a double letter. A double letter? Will you be after telling me that Sure a double letter is two letters, and this I have in                   my fist is but one--O stop a bit, may-be there's                    one in the belly of it--What's this half a bank note? O, you thieves, I'll have your Post Office taken up for stealing the other half.

So they pour in like hail, Till they're off with the mail, With a rattle on dash, dash away,

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The Devil and the Lawyer, or a Hint to Attorneys.

TUNE.-" The tight little Island."

I'll sing you a song, if you'll not think it long, Of what happen'd on one summer's morning, A lawyer, I'm told who with tricking grown bold, Rode out as the day it was dawning: O now, if you will believe me, It is not my wish to deceive thee. In full gallop he went, but he soon had to repent Of his journey, if you will believe me.