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that old iron-foundry left on the face of the earth; and, as for young  
Jacob Blivens, he never got a chance to make his last dying speech after  
all his trouble fixing it up, unless he made it to the birds; because,  
although the bulk of him came down all right in a tree-top in an  
adjoining county, the rest of him was apportioned around among four  
townships, and so they had to hold five inquests on him to find out  
whether he was dead or not, and how it occurred. You never saw a boy  
scattered so.--[This glycerin catastrophe is borrowed from a floating  
newspaper item, whose author's name I would give if I knew it.--M. T.]  
Thus perished the good little boy who did the best he could, but didn't  
come out according to the books. Every boy who ever did as he did  
prospered except him. His case is truly remarkable. It will probably  
never be accounted for.  
A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE--[Written about 1865]  
THOSE EVENING BELLS  
BY THOMAS MOORE  
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