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east Cumberland it is further believed, that the lass will get the 

 whiskers the lad ought to have had. 



" Gone those days of mental darkness ; 

 Men have outlived superstition ; 

 They have learned to trust to nothing 

 But what bears the name of vi^isdom, — 

 And confess no other power 

 Than the God of earth and heaven. " 



