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 lads; I'll shew you land—for when we have tugged through that chapter, the book shall not be opened again this twelvemonth.—Huzza!—

years with a bib under his chin;

Four years in travelling from Christcross-row to Malachi;

A year and a half in learning to write his own name;

Seven long years and more -ing it, at Greek and Latin;

Four years at his probations and his negations—the fine statue still lying in