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Young Alfred with a pack of cards / Could make a pancake, build a house, / Would make a regiment of guards, / And sit as quiet as a mouse.
A silly boy, one Thomas Brown, / Who came to dine and spend the day, / Took great delight to throw it down, / Then, rudely laughing, ran away.