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EPIGRAM ON A LATE CATTLE-SHOW IN SMITHFIELD by THOMAS HOOD

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First Line: OLD FARMER BULL IS TAKEN SICK
Last Line: HE'S HAD A FIT OF CATTLE-EPSY!
Subject(s): LANGUAGE; WORDS; VOCABULARY;
OLD Farmer Bull is taken sick,
Yet not with any sudden trick
Of fever, or his old dyspepsy;
But having seen the foreign stock,
It gave his system such a shock
He's had a fit of @3Cattle-epsy!@1



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