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What a Pity
Mike O’Reilly, of Butte, gazed mournfully at the corpse of his late friend, who had but recently become an atheist, muttering to himself, “You sure look fine, a clean shave, a new suit of clothes and a pair of white gloves on you. All dressed up—and no place to go.”
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Zoology
When they first met he said, “a bear.”
He’d dog her footsteps everywhere.
She monkeyed with him for a year,
Although she said he was a deer.
A little horse-play hitched the two,