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ell me, EDWARD, dost remember |
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How at breakfast often we, |
| Put our bacon in the tea-pot |
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While we took and fried our tea? |
| How we went to evening parties |
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On gigantic brewer's drays? |
| How you wore your coats as trousers, |
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In those happy, happy days? |
| How we used to pocket ices |
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When a modest lunch we bought? |
| Quaff the foaming Abernethy, |
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Masticate the crusty port? |
| How we fished in deep sea water |
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For the barbel, tench, and carp? |
| Wore our rings upon our pencils |
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While we cut our fingers sharp? |
| How we cleaned our boots with sherry |
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While we drank the blacking dry? |
| How we quite forgot to pay for |
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Articles we used to buy? |
| How, a ruffian prosecuting, |
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Who'd been swindled, so he said, |
| We appeared at the Old Bailey, |
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And were done ourselves instead? |
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