<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37140" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Tale of a Nose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twas a hard case, that which happened in Lynn.<br> Haven't heard of it, eh ? Well then, to begin,<br> There's a Jew down there whom they call " Old Mose,"<br> Who travels about, and buys old clothes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Now Mose — which the same is short for Moses —<br> Had one of the biggest kind of noses:<br> It had a sort of an instep in it,<br> And he fed it with snuff about once a minute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> One day he got in a bit of a row<br> With a German chap who had kissed his frau,<br> And, trying to punch him a la Mace,<br> Had his nose cut off close up to his face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> He picked it up from off the ground,<br> And quickly back in its place 'twas bound,<br> Keeping the bandage upon his face<br> Until it had fairly healed in place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Alas for Mose! 'Twas a sad mistake<br> Which he in his haste that day did make;<br> For, to add still more to his bitter cup,<br> He found he had placed it wrong side up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "There's no great loss without some gain;"<br> And Moses says, in a jocular vein,<br> He arranged it so for taking snuff,<br> As he never before could get enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> One thing, by the way, he forgets to add,<br> Which makes the arrangement rather bad:<br> Although he can take his snuff with ease,<br> He has to stand on his head to sneeze!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Follen+Adams">Charles Follen Adams</a> from <i>Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37140" data-title="A Tale of a Nose de Charles Follen Adams" data-description="Twas a hard case, that which happened in Lynn./ Haven't heard of it, eh ? Well then, to begin,/ There's a Jew down there whom they call " Old Mose,"/ Who travels about, and buys old clothes./ Now Mose — which the same is short for Moses —/ Had..."></div> </div> </div>

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