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Obtuse Angle, Scopprell, Aradobo & Tilly Lally are all met in Obtuse Angle's study. "Pray" said Aradobo, "is Chatterton a Mathematician?" "No" said Obtuse Angle, "How can you be so foolish as to think he was!" "Oh I did not think he was. I only ask'd" said Aradobo. "How could you think he was not, & ask if he was?" said Obtuse Angle. "Oh no, Sir, I did think he was before you told me but afterwards I thought he was not." Obtuse Angle said "In the first place you thought he was & then afterwards when I said he was not you thought he was not." "Why I know that!" said Scopprell. "Oh no sir, I thought that he was not but I asked t-t-to know whether he was." "How can that be?" said Obtuse Angle. "How could you ask & think that he was not?" "Why" said he. "It came into my head that he was not." "Why then" said Obtuse Angle, "did you said that he was?" "Did I say so Law? I did not think I said that. "Did not he?" said Obtuse Angle "Yes" said Scopprell. "But I meant" said Aradobo "I I I can't think Law Sir I wish you'd tell me, how it is." Then Obtuse Angle put his chin in his hand & said "Whenever you think, you must always think for yourself." "How Sir?" said Aradobo, "whenever I think I must think myself--I think I do--in the first place" said he with a grin. "Poo Poo" said Obtuse Angle "don't be a fool." Then Tilly Lally took up a Quadrant & ask'd "What is this gim crank for? Is not this a sun dial?" "Yes" said Scopprell "but it's broke" At this moment, the three Philosophers enterd and low'ring darkness hovered o'er th'assembly. "Come" said the Epicurean, "Let's have some rum & water & hang the mathematics." "Come Aradobo, say something then." Aradobo began. "In the first place I think I think in the first place that Chatterton was clever at Fissic Follogy, Pistinology, Aridology, Arography, Transmography, Phizography, Hogamy Hatomy, & hall that but, in the first place, he eat wery little wickly that is he slept very little which he brought into a consumsion, & what was that that he took Fissic or somethink & so died." So all the people in the book enterd into the room & they could not talk any more to the present purpose. |
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