The Happy Ham

All smokers are inveterate;

Their vice becomes inured,

Only a ham can smoke and smoke,

And smoking still be cured.

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I kicked a mongrel cur,

He uttered a mournful wail.

Where did I kick him, Sir?

Ah! Thereby hangs a tail.

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The most disgusting sight in the world is to see another fellow in an automobile with your best girl.

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The old inhabitant says, “I kin remember when a young lady passed you, you always could hear the rustle of stiffly starched skirts.”

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