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fact that all these old friends are dead; but, in fact, most 

 of the men I have fished with have gone over to the ma- 

 jority, and while in this train of thought up comes the 

 old verse : 



And Jennie is wed and Annie is dead, 

 And Alice she fled in the auld lang syne; 



And I sit here at sixty year, 

 Dipping my nose in the Gascon wine. 



THE END. 



