They brought them home, they set them down,
Then shrieked their triumph through the town.
Miss Muller smiled, and said, “You bet
I haven’t paid my taxes yet.”
If, of all words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are, “It might have been.”
Well-nigh as sad are man’s when he
Wails, “Muller, you have worsted me.”
Funny Folks. July 19, 1884.
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