"Can you tell what kind of tales Aristophanes used to write?"
'Your pronunciation's faulty, Aristophanes is right."
Disgusted, Father Carter went up stairs, but not to rest;
He slammed the doors and shutters till the servants were distressed;
At last the verdant caller took his hat and said good night;
Then Bella sought her father with anxiety and fright.
'Pray who's that stupid tradesman who insulted me below?
I asked him all the questions a college man should know,
And then the ignoramus, with impertinence immense,
Corrected my expression with an utter lack of sense."
"The innocent young fellow whom you frightened like a bear,"
Said Arabella Carter as she pacified her pere,
"That pleasant country caller who you thought would never stir,
Was after all a graduate - of Bowdoin College, sir.
"They say he's very 'rocky,' and has real estate and shares;
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