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 Master McKenzies Goodies.

MASTER McKENZIE'S GOODIES. wharton v. Mckenzie. (5 Ad. & eii. 606.) By Irving Browne. [The treats ofan infant undergraduate at College are net necessaries.] A youth of fashion and of high degree; To pine in precincts he reluctant felt, And so in lodgings in the town he dwelt. He had respect from provost and from don; His "governor" was governor of Ceylon, — Immortalized in missionary hymn, Though in geography its place is dim, — That land where heathen bow to wood and stone, But in their blindness they are not alone. He had what made him to all tradesmen dear, An income of two thousand pounds a year; And they fell down unto a calf of gold, As did the Israelites in days of old, And in subservient superstitious zeal They made obeisance to the younger veal. This babe got measles and an inflammation, Which gave the doctors awful consternation. His medical advisers ordered quiet, And very simple, unexciting diet, — For instance, fruit and ices, marmalade, Confectionery, — very sore afraid That grosser victualling might carry off This nursling patient in consumptive cough. In worst of doctors' Latin it was writ; The following was something like to it: "Fruges terras quant, suffi.; Confectiones sacchari; Marmalad. Gydoniae; Etiam glacies, recipe. Edita sunt ad libitum. Excitat. prohibitum."
 * I 'HERE went to Oxford University

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