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ADVICE FROM A CONTENTED MAN.

"I cannot deem why men toil so for fame." - ALEX. SMITH.

Men toil and men sweat, but perhaps all thou leavest

Is a broken-down health and a little-known name.

O Jencks, take advice from gay fortune's reverses,

And abandon your oar as the root of all evil;

Take life as it comes, and, as I do, write verses,

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And you 'll soon let athletics depart to the d - l!

L. L. E.

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