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Well suited to teach many older folks;
For many true words are spoken in jokes;
And many will take, in a jocose way,
What, soberly said, would drive them away;
And many will see, in a ludicrous scene,
Portraits so finished, (their own, I ween,)

As to cure them of follies, and make them shun
The features they laugh at, in others, as fun.
But why all this pleading? I'm no patron-seeker.
Let it speak for itself-THE HUMOROUS SPEAKER.

NEW YORK, JULY, 1853.

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