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"No, no, yes, yes," he said incoherently "Certainly why not this is a

letter dear old thing about a patent o old age is creeping on o in"

He said this without a comma or a full-stop He said it so wildly that

she was really alarmed

Hamilton arrived a little later, and to him Bones made full confession

"Let's see the poems," said Hamilton seriously

"You won't laugh?" said Bones

"Don't be an ass Of course I won't laugh, unless they're supposed to

be comic," said Hamilton And, to do hih Bones watched his face jealously

So ie to

deness: "Well, old ,

but I can't say that I' That

little one about the sunset, I think, is rather a ge back the proofs

"Bones, you've behaved abo it about You're going to -stock?" snorted the annoyed Bones "What the dickens do you

? I told you there are no comic poems They're all

like that"

"I was afraid they were," said Hamilton "But poems needn't be comic,"