How'd You Like It?

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How'd You Like It? by Ellis Parker Butler

 Well, then! How’d you like to bear the name of Butler
 As an honor badge eight centuries at least,
And then have the Prohibitionists inform you
 That a butler is a sort of outlawed beast?

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