Prick up your ears! Just look a trifle spry,
And we may catch the nimble half-a-guinea.
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What! No? Well, dash my eyes, you are a cow,
To jib incontinently, here, and now!
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]THE MAN WHO “CAN TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT ALONE.”
“Now, you see,” said my friend, as we breasted a bar,
And he mentioned to Popsy, “A go of Three Star”—
“Now, you see, I am built on a different plan,
And avoid all extremes, like a moderate man—