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Smith is a very stupid man; / He lives next door to me; / He has no settled scheme or plan / Of domesticity. / He does not own a gramophone, / Nor rush for morning trains; / His garden paths are overgrown, / He seldom entertains.
In all our staid suburban street / He strikes the one false note. / He goes about in slippered feet, / And seldom wears a coat. / I don't know how he earns his bread; / 'Tis said he paints or writes; / And frequently, I've heard it said, / He works quite late at nights.