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A corpulent man is my bachelor chum, / With a neck apoplectic and thick -- / An abdomen on him as big as a drum, / And a fist big enough for the stick; / With a walk that for grace is clear out of the case, / And a wobble uncertain -- as though / His little bow-legs had forgotten the pace / That in youth used to favor him so.
He is forty, at least; and the top of his head / Is a bald and a glittering thing; / And his nose and his two chubby cheeks are as red / As three rival roses in spring;