XIII

And that’s where it is—she made me feel

I was a rascal: but people who scorn,

And tell a poor patch-breech he isn’t genteel,

Why, they make him kick up—and he treads on a corn.

It isn’t liking, it’s curst ill-luck,

Drives half of us into the begging-trade:

If for taking to water you praise a duck,

For taking to beer why a man upbraid?

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