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THE CRIME

"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes."

SAM LLOYD'S NEWS PROBLEMS FOR THE DAY

Through the smoke of Popocatepeti

Comes a daughter of Ixtlixochiti.

A king of antique Aztec fame

To make the interesting claim

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That of the family bush the fairest petal

Is one to make us mortals gasp a little.

No less than Edison by name.

Now Tomas of Teotihuacan

(Than whom no greater was in Yucatan).

Begat a son, who had a son.

Who chose for wife an English one.

Her son (nose, mouth, and chin proclaim the man

So runs the proof), most prominent American.

Is Thomas Alva Edison.

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