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 A story, in which native humour reigns,
 Is often useful, always entertains;
  A graver fact, enlisted on read more 
 A story, in which native humour reigns,
 Is often useful, always entertains;
  A graver fact, enlisted on your side,
   May furnish illustration, well applied;
    But sedentary weavers of long tales
     Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails. 
 I hate
 To tell again a tale once fully told.  
 I hate
 To tell again a tale once fully told. 
This story will never go down.
This story will never go down.
But that's another story.
But that's another story.
 Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of 
yourself.
 [Lat., Quid rides?]
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 Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of 
yourself.
 [Lat., Quid rides?]
  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.] 
 For seldom shall she hear a tale
 So said, so tender, yet so true.  
 For seldom shall she hear a tale
 So said, so tender, yet so true. 
 An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
 We set around the kitchen fire an' has read more 
 An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
 We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
  A-list'nin' to the witch tales 'at Annie tells about
   An' the gobble-uns 'at gits you
    Ef you
     Don't
      Watch
       Out! 
 When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
 Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
  Pick out read more 
 When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
 Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
  Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.