Eluded the grasp of pursuit with a hop,

And gained an adjacent and tall chimney-pot.

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It chanced that the vent of this same chimney led

Direct to a chamber, confined to his bed

Where lay an old gentleman, ill with the gout,

And wishing some bad fate might thence drag him out!

Pug, missing his footing, ’midst vapour and fume,