For Brutus, his best friend, did not dare to tell.

And that, of course, means halitosis.

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A second-hand copy of Bierwirth's "Beginning German" bears silent but eloquent witness to the spirit of progress in German A. On page 15, opposite the sentence where Anna is being introduced to Charles, there appears in the margin this comment: 'O Lord, how do you say this?" And on page 115, where Charles and Anna say they are not looking for anything but aren't you looking for something? the margin is illuminated by this note: "O mein Gott, wie sagt man dieses?"

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He Guessed Her

A testy young chorister, Esther.

Impressed on the priest who confessed her

That temporal joy

Could never decoy

Or even allure or molest her.

To test her before he had blessed her.

He firmly for evidence pressed her:

Her pious devotion

So stirred her emotion