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And when he walked down into the Saloon,

He sate him pensive o’er a dish of tea,

Which he perhaps had not discovered soon,

Had it not happened scalding hot to be,

Which made him have recourse unto his spoon;

So much distrait he was, that all could see

That something was the matter⁠—Adeline

The first⁠—but what she could not well divine.