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My present wife just suits again,
And I trust I may have occasion to
Raise a new race of recruits again,
To keep us from foreign invasion too:
She's a sweet-temper'd creature, good lack!
With a title I hope won't degrade her too;
For having a hump on her back,
Why, you may call her my wife or my lady too.

(Speaking).
I have but one child by her, and a sharp lad he is—Turning the corner of the street the other day, he ran full but against an attorney, and d---n me, if he has been able to speak a word of truth ever since—Having given you a full description of my wives and family, I wish you cou'd see us all sitting in the chimney corner, on a winter's evening, every one of us singing,

Ka ba, wa wa, wow, eh, wow, &c.