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Show The Rambling Rhymster By LES PLETTNER FORCE AND OBJECT Alphonse Benedict was an old married mar-ried man A veteran of many seasons. In knowledge of women be was in the van, And the years he was wed were the reasons. A husband was he of conventional tvno.' With faults and with virtues in plenty. He (iked to do things that he shouldn't and gripe; As they all do, though forty or twenty. His wife strove in vain for to keep him in place To hew to the line of perfection To Gt him to pattern of tight and straight lace In spite of his stubborn objection. He still kept his faults, and was sot in his way He would do things he knew that he shouldn't. He still was the reason bis wife's hair turned gray She tried to restore it but couldn't. He said with a grin, of his obstinate course That no one had after hard job checked ; 'My wife is the great irresistible force. And I'm the immovable object!" |