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A Pugilist met the Moral Sentiment of the Community, who was carrying a hat-box. "What have you in the hat-box, my friend?" inquired the
Pugilist.
"A new frown," was the answer. "I am bringing it from the frownery -- the one over there with the gilded steeple."
"And what are you going to do with the nice new frown?" the Pugilist asked.
"Put down pugilism -- if I have to wear it night and day," said the Moral / Sentiment of the Community, sternly.
"That's right," said the Pugilist, "that is right, my good friend; if / pugilism had been put down yesterday, I wouldn't have this kind of Nose / to-day. I had a rattling hot fight last evening with -- "
"Is that so?" cried the Moral Sentiment of the Community, with sudden / animation. "Which licked. Sit down here on the hat-box and tell me all / about it!"