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Reader, do you know the Cave of Harmony? If you do not, so much the better. If you are one of its _habitues_, I fear no words of mine can make you forsake it. It is said the Cave is altered since we were there -- so much the better; Thackeray, I think, had something to do with that reform -- and that now nothing objectionable is sung. Still, I doubt whether drinking and harmony after 12 P. M. can do much good. You and I, it may be, are old men,
"Ruin'd trunks on wither'd forks, / Empty scarecrows you and I. "