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Hail Muse etc.! Bring me Peggy,

My antient steed, now somewhat leggy;

Not him who on Parnassus green

Erst fed, and drank of Hippocrene;

But such, as to supply the trade,

At Nuremburg by scores are made. —

I mount him, and will now indite

A Bee-book for my own delight,

I'll sing of Johnny Dull: his pig,

Made by his bees exceeding big;

And of his daughter fair Christine,

Of her queer lover Dicky Dean,

And of his nephew rogue Eugene —

Of honey-robbers I will tell,

And bears, and bull-frogs, ghosts as well —

All which my readers may discover

Who con this true tale ten times over —

Or make ten other Bee Friends buy it;

For three and six I can supply it.