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Rh How did he get so? (Rich was understood.) In dealing in "old rags" in San Francisco. Oh it was terrible as well could be. We both of us turned over in our graves.

Just specimens is all New Hampshire has, One each of everything as in a show-case Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.

She had one President (pronounce him Purse, And make the most of it for better or worse. He's your one chance to score against the state). She had one Daniel Webster. He was all The Daniel Webster ever was or shall be. She had the Dartmouth needed to produce him.

I call her old. She has one family Whose claim is good to being settled here Before the era of colonization, And before that of exploration even. John Smith remarked them as he coasted by Dangling their legs and fishing off a wharf At the Isles of Shoals, and satisfied himself They weren't Red Indians but veritable Pre-primitives of the white race, dawn people, Like those who furnished Adam's sons with wives; However uninnocent they may have been In being there so early in our history. They'd been there then a hundred years or more. Pity he didn't ask what they were up to At that date with a wharf already built, And take their name. They've since told me their name— Today an honored one in Nottingham.