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Circumstantial Evidence

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She does not mind a good cigar     (The kind, that is, I smoke);     She thinks all men quite stupid are,     (But laughs wheneer I joke).     She says she does not care for verse     (But praises all I write);     She says that punning is a curse,     (But then mine are so bright!)     She does not like a big moustache     (You see that mine is small);     She hates a man with too much dash,     (I scarcely dash at all!)     She simply dotes on hazel eyes     (And mine, you note, are that);     She likes a man of portly size;     (Gad! I am getting fat!)     She says champagne is made to drink;     (In this we quite agree!)     And all these symptoms make me think     Sweet Kates in love with me.

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