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This atmosphere is pure ozone! / To climb the hills you promptly start; / Unless you happen to be prone / To palpitations of the heart; / In which case swarming up the Alps / Brings on a bad attack of palps.
The nicest method is to stay / Quite comfortably down below, / And, from the steps of your chalet, / Watch other people upwards go. / Then you can buy an alpenstock, / And scratch your name upon a rock.
_MORAL_
Don't do fatiguing things which you / Can pay another man to do. / Let friends assume (they may be wrong), / That you each year ascend Mong Blong. / Some things you can _pretend_ you've done, / And climbing up the Alps is one.