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Gentle Reader, is your bosom filled with loathing / At the mention of the "Simple Life" brigade? / Do you shudder at their Jaeger underclothing, / Which is "fearfully and wonderfully made"? / Though in manner they resemble "poor relations," / Or umbrellas which their owners have forgot, / They contribute to the gaiety of nations, / Do they not?
They are harmless little people, tame and quiet, / Who will feed out of a fellow-creature's hand, / If he happens to provide them with a diet / Of a temperance and vegetable brand. / They can easily subsist -- a thing to brag of -- / In the draughtiest of sanitary huts, / On a "mute inglorious Stilson" and a bag of / Monkey-nuts.