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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,