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THE SECRET MINE.
“Declare the General a fool, I charge ye!
And swear the toast was not his own free choice;
Tell ’em that Colden prompted, and maintain it:
That is the fact, I’m sure, but we can see
By sending Aleck11 down to ascertain it.”
The hint was taken, and accordingly
A certain member had a conversation,
And asked a certain surgeon all about it:
Some folks assert he got the information;
’Tis also said, he came away without it.
Good people all! I’m up to more than you know;
But prudence frowns, my coward goose-quill lingers,
For fear that flint-and-trigger Doctor Brunaugh
Should slip a challenge in your poet’s fingers!
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