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THE HEN.

A GERMAN FABLE.

You know not how't goes through my head!"

"Humph! very likely," madam said,

Then proudly putting forth a leg, -

"Uneducated barn-yard fowl,

You know no more than any owl

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The noble privilege and praise

Of authorship in modern days;

I'll tell you why I do it;

First, you perceive, I lay my egg,

And then - review it."

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