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A Bird in Hand.

BIRD in hand is better far
Than two which in the bushes are.

A glass of ale to drink’s as nice
As any champagne kept in ice.
So men, content with what they hold,
Are rich as misers with their gold.
Would you be happy, this I’d teach :—
Don’t aim at things beyond your reach.

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The Dog Ticket.
EG over leg, When he came to a ditch,
As the dog went to Dover ; | There he stuck in it.
When he came to a stile, Grown rich, he rides by train,
He vaulted over. | Blithe as a cricket.
| Cabs it to station,
And takes a dog’s ticket.
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When he came to a stream,
Through in a minute.