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BEN ALLAH ACHMET;

Or, The Fatal Tum.

I ONCE did know a Turkish man
⁠Whom I upon a two-pair-back met,
His name it was Effendi Khan
Backsheesh Pasha Ben Allah Achmet.

A Doctor Brown I also knew—
I've often eaten of his bounty—
The Turk and he they lived at Hooe,
In Sussex, that delightful county!

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