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So, Willy, let me and you be wipers
Of scores out with all men--especially pipers!
And whether they pipe us FROM rats or FROM mice,
If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise.
DEFINITIONS:--Corporation, city government. Ermine, furs used for
lining the robes of mayors and other high officials. Guilder, a
silver coin worth about 40 cents. Adept, one fully skilled in
anything. Nunchion, the same as luncheon. Puncheon, a cask
containing 84 gallons. Poke, pocket. Caliph, a Mohammedan ruler.
Stiver, a Dutch coin worth about two cents. Burgher, a citizen of
the town.
EXERCISE. In your geographies find all the places named
in this poem.
LIST OF AUTHORS.
Arthur, Timothy S. An American writer, born near Newburgh, New
York, in 1809. Most of his life was passed in Baltimore and
Philadelphia. He wrote more than a hundred volumes, nearly all of
which are now forgotten. His best-known work is a temperance tale
entitled "Ten Nights in a Bar-room." He died in 1885.
Browning, Robert. An English poet, born near London in 1812.
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