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TO NUMBER 27x

Beloved Peeler! friend and guide

And guard of many a midnight reeler,

None worthier, though the world is wide,

Beloved Peeler.

Thou from before the swift four-wheeler

Didst pluck me, and didst thrust aside

A strongly built provision-dealer

Who menaced me with blows, and cried

‘Come on! come on!’ O Paian, Healer,

Then but for thee I must have died,

Beloved Peeler!

The following presentiment, though he was no ‘waster,’ may very well have been his own. He was only half Scotch, and not at all metaphysical: —