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Alcibiades J. Skinner / Was a famous after-dinner / Speaker. Great the way / He secured, just by excelling / In the art of Story Telling, / One good meal a day.
Chestnuts more than often passé / He exchanged for Marrons Glacés, / Canvasback and Quail. / Flat the feast and dull the dinner / Lacking that accomplished Spinner / Of Postprandial Tale.