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A FACT.

Unhappily the youth were not impressed

Deeply as Doc. had hoped, by his protest

So frantic.

They voted him an aged idiotic,

And James' tirade against the blest narcotic

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Pedantic.

So, like the school-boys of the present day,

In secrecy they smoked the furtive clay,

Without regard.

Similar courses are sometimes pursued

In colleges, where smoking is tabooed

Within the yard.

Some little time these adolescent souls

Enjoyed the sweets of their forbidden bowls

Without detection;

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