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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511071" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Post That Fitted</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though tangled and twisted the course of true love<br>This ditty explains,<br>No tangle's so tangled it cannot improve<br>If the Lover has brains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry<br>An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called &quot;my little Carrie.&quot;<br>Sleary's pay was very modest; Sleary was the other way.<br>Who can cook a two-plate dinner on eight poor rupees a day?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long he pondered o'er the question in his scantly furnished quarters --<br>Then proposed to Minnie Boffkin, eldest of Judge Boffkin's daughters.<br>Certainly an impecunious Subaltern was not a catch,<br>But the Boffkins knew that Minnie mightn't make another match.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they recognised the business and, to feed and clothe the bride,<br>Got him made a Something Something somewhere on the Bombay side.<br>Anyhow, the billet carried pay enough for him to marry --<br>As the artless Sleary put it: -- &quot;Just the thing for me and Carrie.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did he, therefore, jilt Miss Boffkin -- impulse of a baser mind?<br>No! He started epileptic fits of an appalling kind.<br>[Of his modus operandi only this much I could gather: --<br>&quot;Pears's shaving sticks will give you little taste and lots of lather.&quot;]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Frequently in public places his affliction used to smite<br>Sleary with distressing vigour -- always in the Boffkins' sight.<br>Ere a week was over Minnie weepingly returned his ring,<br>Told him his &quot;unhappy weakness&quot; stopped all thought of marrying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleary bore the information with a chastened holy joy, --<br>Epileptic fits don't matter in Political employ, --<br>Wired three short words to Carrie -- took his ticket, packed his kit --<br>Bade farewell to Minnie Boffkin in one last, long, lingering fit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four weeks later, Carrie Sleary read -- and laughed until she wept --<br>Mrs. Boffkin's warning letter on the &quot;wretched epilept.&quot; . . .<br>Year by year, in pious patience, vengeful Mrs. Boffkin sits<br>Waiting for the Sleary babies to develop Sleary's fits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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This ditty explains,
No tangle's so tangled it cannot improve
If the Lover has brains.


Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry
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