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ISTER Socrates Snooks, a lord of creation,

The second time entered the married relation:

Xantippe Caloric accepted his hand,

And they thought him the happiest man in the land,

But scarce had the honeymoon passed o'er his head,

When, one morning, to Xantippe, Socrates said,

"I think, for a man of my standing in life,

This house is too small, as I now have a wife:

So, as early as possible, carpenter Carey