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    "text": "The Gnu conspicuously wears",
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    "text": "His coat of gnumerous bristling hairs,",
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    "text": "While, as we see, the modest Newt",
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    "text": "Of such a coat is destitute.",
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    "text": "(I’m only telling this to you,",
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   {
    "text": "And it is strictly “entre gnu”)",
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    "text": "In point of fact the Newt is nude,",
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    "text": "And therefore he does not obtrude,",
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    "text": "But hides in some secluded gnook,",
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    "text": "Beneath the surface of the brook.",
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    "text": "It’s almost more than he can bear,",
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    "text": "To issue slyly from his lair,",
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    "text": "And snatch a hasty breath of air,",
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    "text": "His need of which is absolute,",
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    "text": "Because, you see, he is a pneu‑t.",
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