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THE SEA-SERPENT. 
advise them to, for then you truly u live in 
clover,” The servants, having less to do, de¬ 
vote themselves with zeal to you ; and, besides 
the usual loaves and fishes, you get the best of 
the nicest dishes. Therefore, if wise, you had 
better stay ; it’s only the snobs that go away 
next morning, or the next day after, unless, per¬ 
haps, a bill, or draft, or note, that ’s been for 
some months due, you ’re obliged to pay next 
day at two, — then go ; protested notes are 
matters that very rarely bother beaux. They 
pay their tailors and their hatters,—but how 
they do it no one knows. 
“ Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, 
Last eve in beauty’s circle proudly gay ; 
The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, 
The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day” 
saw twenty yachts go dashing down the bay, 
while far behind fair Newport’s towers lay. 
Out on the sea, out on the sea, the fleet is 
dashing merrily. All had decided at once to 
