DELL includes Within _The Swindler_ (UNWIN) pleased
me,

Not by their thrills or interludes
Of tenderness--these hardly seized me;
Not by their people, though the pack
Were amiable and pleasant creatures,
Barring the villains who were black
And villainous in all their features.

By none of these my pulse was jerked
Out of its normal calm condition,
But by the plots, with which I worked
A quite exciting competition;
A point was mine if, at the start,
I guessed the way a yarn was tending;
Miss DELL'S, if by consummate art
She failed to use the obvious ending.

The first two tales she won on; three
And four were mine; five hers; six, seven
And eight I got hands down; and she
Got square with nine and ten. Eleven
Is still unwritten, and I bide
Impatiently its birth, for that'll
Finally, so I trust, decide
The issue of our hard-fought battle.

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