Each missing word has the same five letters.
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In all our ——— the mechanician’s skill
Now compasses the rogue with artful wile.
The patent ——— and the “tell tale” till
Beset his way who ——— the path of guile,
Besotted youth, who ——— to defy
The rule of right, beware his awful fate
Who, sitting down to eat a stolen pie,
——— the eighth commandment on the plate!
Spelt with the same six letters.
No. XVI.—A QUAINT EPITAPH
This epitaph, most of it in some sort of dog Latin, tells its own pathetic tale on its tablet.
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