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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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12. A BEAN-STRIPE: ALSO APPLE-EATING.

"Look, I strew beans" . . .(Ferishtah, we premise,Strove this way with a scholar's cavilmentWho put the peevish question: "Sir, be frank!A good thing or a bad thing—Life is which?Shine and shade, happiness and miseryBattle it out there: which force beats, I ask?If I pick beans from out a bushelful—This one, this other,―then demand of theeWhat colour names each justly in the main,—
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