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Show THE PIOUS BEAR. The Rusiiiin hpar looknd out ore d;j A stiint y e ul was hi. BU Hull' bnyht, FBiinci ills cyus li ulf Shut w.to pu'ly; And r.-ing Europe looking on KnL'lLd'jwn and sa:d hie prnyors, BccsU3B ho ftlt devotional And not u bit for aire. But all tho while be saw, my dear, Una who had long been ill, "Who rncuienlftrily, my duar, Seetnrd to grow sicker stil. An invalid wIiol' habits were In questionab!e tuste, "Who living on the Bodphnrrus The neighborhood diraced. The pious bear was exercised To an inlente dfgreo Became of all the sick man's tricks Of immorality. And to himself ho put the case, This evening when I Flip 'Twill servo the cause of piety To eat the sick man up. But lest tho other animilos Should worry at tho news, And hint with tooth and c'aw that he Was worldly in his views, lie went about and told thuin all Uow vury Binfully Tho sick man lived and how ho still Abused his family. And so ho played his little game Till every aniuiilo In virtuous indignation said. The Bick man'd ways wore vile, And thai ho ought to be suppressed And of his barem'i shorn, So then Iho wise boar ata him up And cribbed his golden horn. |