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It is understood that our esteemed Col. Franc B. Wilkie is going to / formulate a reply to Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox's latest poem, which / begins as follows:
"I hold it as a changeless law / From which no soul can sway or swerve, / We have that in us which will draw / Whate'er we need or most deserve."
We fancy the genial colonel will start off with some such quatrain as / this:
"I fain would have your recipe, / If you'll but give the snap away; / Now when four clubs are dealt to me, / How may I draw another, pray? "