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I should like, good friends, to mention the disaster which befell / Mr. William Perry Peters, of the town of Muscatel, / Whose fate is full of meaning, if correctly understood -- / Admonition to the haughty, consolation to the good.
It happened in the hot snap which we recently incurred, / When 'twas warm enough to carbonize the feathers of a bird, / And men exclaimed: "By Hunky!" who were bad enough to swear, / And pious persons supervised their adjectives with care.