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An excellent peasant	A
Of character pleasant	A
Once lived in a hut with his wife	B
He was cheerful and docile	C
But such an old fossil	C
You wouldn't meet twice in your life	B
His notions were all without reason or rhyme	D
Such dullness in any one else were a crime	D
But the folly pig headed	E
To which he was wedded	E
Was so deep imbedded	F
it touched the sublime	D
	-
He frequently stated	E
Such quite antiquated	E
And singular doctrines as these	G
Do good unto others	H
All men are your brothers	H
Of course he forgot the Chinese	G
He said that all men were made equal and free	I
That's true if they're born on our side of the sea	I
That truth should be spoken	J
And pledges unbroken	J
Now where by that token	J
would most of us be	I
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One day as his pottage	K
He ate in his cottage	K
A fairy stepped up to the door	L
Upon it she hammered	M
And meekly she stammered	M
A morsel of food I implore	L
He gave her sardines and a biscuit or two	N
And she said in reply when her luncheon was through	N
In return for these dishes	O
Of bread and of fishes	O
The first of your wishes	P
I'll make to come true	N
	-
That nincompoop peasant	M
Accepted the present	M
As most of us probably would	M
And thinking her bounty	M
To turn to account he	M
Said Now I'll do somebody good	M
I won't ask a thing for myself or my wife	B
But I'll make all my neighbors with happiness rife	B
Whate'er their conditions	Q
Henceforward physicians	Q
And indispositions	Q
they're rid of for life	B
	-
These words energetic	R
The fairy's prophetic	R
Announcement brought instantly true	N
With singular quickness	Q
Each victim of sickness	Q
Was made over better than new	N
And people who formerly thought they were doomed	M
With almost obstreperous healthiness bloomed	M
And each had some platitude	M
Teeming with gratitude	M
For the new attitude	M
life had assumed	M
	-
Our friend's satisfaction	J
Concerning his action	J
Was keen but exceedingly brief	S
The wrathful condition	J
Of every physician	J
In town was surpassing belief	S
Professional nurses were plunged in despair	T
And chemists shook passionate fists in the air	T
They called at his dwelling	U
With violence swelling	U
His greeting repelling	U
with arrogant stare	T
	-
They beat and they battered	M
They slammed and they shattered	M
And did him such serious harm	V
That after their labors	Q
His wife told the neighbors	Q
They'd caused her excessive alarm	V
They then set to work on his various ills	Q
And plied him with liniments powders and pills	Q
And charged him so dearly	M
That all of them nearly	M
Made double the yearly	M
amount of their bills	Q
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This Moral by the tale is taught	M
The wish is father to the thought	M
We'd oftentimes escape the worst	M
If but the thinking part came first	M

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