Amazed he started, for th' affrighted man,
Lost and bewildered, thought not of the bran;
But all were silent, all on things intent
Of high concern; none ear to money lent;
So on he walk'd, more cautious than before,
And gain'd the purposed sum, and one piece more.
Practice makes perfect;—when the month came round,
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He dropp'd the cash, nor listen'd for a sound;
But yet, when, last of all th' assembled flock,