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Show Rippling' Rhymes Bj WALT MA&O.V ril I PAT SUFFERER. The fat man sickens and like the dickens his tortured system feels; he I has the glanders and yaller jandera and gout in both his heels. When convalescent, his woes senescent, he'd like to tell th - tale of ailments gaudv that racked his body, and make his hearers pale He'd fain be spieling his , blood congealing pain epic by the week; but none will listen, no tear-drops tear-drops glisten on sympathetic cheek. ! And when he pauses, for any causes. j he hears some horselaugh hounds his ; yarns seem yellow, for he's a fellow ; who WOlghs two hundred pounds. He I may have verses from docs and nurses I to prove diseases throe- it doesn't mat-' mat-' ter the man is fatter than sick folk ought to be Wc grin and simper when he would whimper his doleful sickbed tunes, we mark ids figure and snort and snigger and say he's full ot prunes. If he were slender, with pity t rider we d mix our tears With his; tre'd hear him twitter of ordeals bit-ter, bit-ter, and sigh, and say, "Gee whiz!" But he is fatter than any hatter or plumber In the town, so when he'd babble and idly gabble, vveprornptly turn him down. on |