BRAHMS, OPUS 116.

I care for your pet, One Sixteen

(Your choice proves your judgment is keen);

But in E, you forget, see,

It has two intermezzi;

Please, which of these twain do you mean?

Which E? Can you ask? Must we tell?

Doth it not every other excel—

The ineffable one,

Of gossamer spun,

The ultimate spirituelle.

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A candid butcher in Battle Creek advertises “Terrible cuts.”

Another candid merchant in Ottumwa, Ia., advises: “Buy to-day and think to-morrow.”