That what they'd done was wrong.

     To take his office once again,

     The mouth they all implored;

     Who soon accepted it, and then

     Health was again restored.

     This tale for state affairs is meant,

     Which we need not discuss;

     At present we will be content,

     To find a moral thus:

     The mouth has claims of large amount,

     From arms, legs, feet, and hands;

     But let them not, on that account,

     Pay

      more

     than it demands.

      Said

     a hare to a tortoise, "Good sir, what a while

     You have been only crossing the way;

     Why I really believe that to go half a mile,

     You must travel two nights and a day."

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