“There was a Young Man with a beard,
  Who said, ’It is just as I feared! 
  Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
  Have all built their nests in my beard.’”

Business done.—­Committee on Irish Land Bill Dropping into Poetry, again.

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