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Show FEMININE FIGURES. Arithmetic 'tis well to shun, H Of puzzles it has plenty: I For instance, I was twenty-one I When Madge was sweet and twenty. H Old Time, as fast the seasons flow, H Worked on mo with his leaven; I felt the weight of thirty-two When Madge was twenty-seven. I The marvel grow to huge estate, Madge proved of time so thrifty, H Remaining simple thirty-eight I Long after I'd turned fifty. I My brain is plunged in awful whirls I By Mathematic's rigors, I And who shall now maintain that girls Have no control of figures? I London Punch. I |