The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 22, 1904, Image 6
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^ BARTON OXFORD '
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When the westbound s.Sijrc drew up a
Crawford's tiiat April nfterno.n a soli
tary p.ntsonscr alighted a tall, strum,
featured you a.; man wlio carried lihn
self with an air of determination. Hilly
Crawford, lounging in the <1 orway ol
tlio barroom, languidly : tanking si
stubby clay pipe. looked at tlio arrival
critically. II;1 noted tin* man's face, ol
tin* chalky whiteness of unpolished
marble, the dark rings under his eyes
and the gaunt hollows in liis chocks,
which made the cheek bones glaringly
apparent.
Hilly had seen many such arrivals
before. (lenerally. though. they lacked
the coinbativeu -ss this man's bearing
seemed to suggest. They were prone
to wear a tired, hopeless, often frightened.
look. (Jenerally, too. they went
back i:i a few months by the sta;co
attain?in a ions box on the trunk rack
behind.
Hilly was meat :lly figuring how Ion:;
it would be before this one wen- back
in such fashion, when the young man
strode briskly up the stops and aeons;?
i! leiu
"An' you the proprietor here7"
I.iliy "reckoned I.e was,"
"Accommodate n.c here?" The young
man shot <".it Irs questions with no
waste of words.
"How loti;,V" raid r.illy, removing
his evil smelling pfpo.
"As long r.s I like the place." said the
other. "Maybe all summer. maybe ;t
year, mayle- longer."
Hilly tlK^iL-'it to himself, "Maybe
four or live months at tlie most," but
he said. "(bless so." replaced liis pipe,
and. picking up the bulging suiteuse,
led his guest within.
From behind the closed blinds in the
second story of the Utile red shack?
a stage station which Hilly Crawford
had christened the "Hod Mountain inn"
- some one else had watched the arrival
of the stage, and that some one
was Araminta Crawford. Hilly's daughter.
She saw the determined looking
man, with his almost defiant air and
his pale, sunken cheeks. As iter father
was showing the way upstairs she
heard the man's spasmodic cough, and
her heart was filled with sudden pity
at the thought of his coining 1o that deserted
corner of the world to die. for
despite the reputation of the climate of
the lted mountain district as a healer
of damaged breathing apparatus Araminta
had seen the long boxes on the
trunk vack too often to put much Taith
in ir.
At supper time the young man was
the sole g'liost in the smoky dining
room. Arnmiutn was waitress as well
as cook. When she came into the dining
room the guest lixed his eyes upon
her. .She was good to look upon?dark,
well formed, with a fullness of figure
and an unstudied ease which youth and
life in the open air had given her.
Crawford came into the dining room
for a moment to impure concerning his
guest's comfort. lie indicated his
daughter with a wave of his hand.
"My daughter, Minta, Mr.?er?er?
Mr."? 1
"Doming," the guest supplemented,
turning to the girl. From that moment
Jack Doming dated the beginning of
his recovery.
In the days that followed Doming
saw much of the girl, lie found her
frank, unaffected, good hearted, yet
with a keenness of mind which accorded
ill with the narrowness of her sur,.^,,.,.1:...?
ir?. r-..I > *
<ui..niiugr. uci liUIICT It IK 1 UIO UIPD
who came to the inn were gross and
coarse. Aside from the old negro woman
who assisted about the place, there
was not a woman within thirty miles.
Yet the girl was womanly, quiet and
possessed of a native refinement and a
simple frankness which Doming found
irresistibly charming.
The weeks flew past, and Doming improved.
He was much in Minta's company,
and the more lie saw of the girl
the deeper grew his Interest in her.
He showed her his diploma from Yale
Sold by. Uni
fjy
I Southern R,
THIS GREAT RAILWAY RUN:
GREAT COUf
CONVENIENTLY UNITING ALL THE
OF THE SOUTH.
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Passenger Traffic Manager, Gener,
Washington, D. C
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^ and n>ld lior or liis . r? in the wo
outside, v."!:ilo she listened ouRerly l
^ every d They walked toRf?th
- tlu-y dished in the stream at the lia
r i of t!ii' inn. ilmy s >t up n laiwt a
|| I tried his i % -s. ami tin' Rirl proved
J ho n far hot tor sliot than In*. Mot
f \\ idle his lanes mended, ami ho dev
j| oped a v. ry l oiiiiiion form ?f hot
i trouble, of whit-h .Minta was tlio cau?
jj ' There > >::!d lie hut ono emliiiR to
all. One Oeioher niuht HeniinR s.m^
1 Crawford, who was siuokitiR shop
t 1
in the deserted barroom. Iiemin; ma
; known his intentions. and Crawfo
- oanio suddenly from his sonitioli
niood ami swore roundly.
' | "No," said Crawford. ".Minta mar
i a consumptive?a tondorfoot consult
I ' tiveV No. sir; shi' is RoiiiR to mar
' > tin; son of ohl .loans. who runs t
I stnRO routo. That was arranged yon
i ! ago. tin's Rot money to Imrn a
, | nothing the matter with his Iuiirs."
I 1 iendiiR turned aiiRiily on his In
Jil'd left tlio room Outside in t
ii.wnu'ijilit lie met .Mint:i. who laugh
win*:* li t dd her of the Intervie
'whispered ;i few worils into his e
sunt then ran swiftly into the house.
I .si to next afternoon. win n the stsi
i'rav up at Crawford's, Hemim: stoi
on ti. porch saying Mind by to Hilly.
"No hard feel in'. I hope?"' Hilly w
saying.
Nunc sit ;;1!. I as-mre v*ai." Iieinii
replied. witli si twinkle in his eve, f
behind Crawford's bark la* saw I
1 > ?i npsey. t'i?' stage (irivrr, helping
woman into tin* roach.
Twenty mi i't! *s lat a*, after tl
o.-nli had rattled off toward 1!<
Mountain. ! i!y eal!(*d his daughter.
"Miiit:?!'' he bellowed through tl
house. "Minta! Where ia tarnation
the jrlri'r"
"1 done s(*( n her git tin' into do stsig
sub," ssiid the colored girl.
Far tip on the stage road, whk
winds about lied mountain, yon est
Iqpk down si bluff and sec the rosi
twisting along below. Iteming sin
Mintsi, looking down the bluff, eaugl
sight of a solitary horseman ridlr
madly along the rocky path. f)emii
leaned out the window.
"Crawford's <oining up ti e trail," 1
Shouted, "it's ^".0 in your pocket, R
if you hind us sit Madison Flats alien
of liiui."
Dempsey let out his team until tl
coach rocked and swayed, and the on
othe'r psissenger, si thin, nervous ma
clutched the s**at and gsispod.
Then they heard Ed shouting to tl
team. The pace slackened as lie s<
brakes linrd. Instinctively Demit
opened the door and pushed Minta b
fore liim. At the same moment the
wsis si crash, the coach toppled ovc
and lie found himself pinned benea
(lie other passenger. who could n
Uiove.
Mintn scrambled from the dirt by tl
roadside unhurt, and Dompsey e
loose and pacified the struggling teai
Then together they ran to the coac
Neither man within was hurt, but bo
were pinned down in the coach.
\n inspiration came to Ed Pompsc
lie put his face close to the wreck*
coach.
"Say, in tharj" he called. "Are y<
the new minister for Cedar Creek ?>'
"I am," was the response.
"Well," said Ed. "I reckon you've g
your first job right hero. You're layi
ucrost the groom, an' the bride's he
by me, an' daddy, madder 'n a wet be
is omnia' up the trail like thunder on
?iyelone. Git together, everybody."
j The imprisoned clergyman rose to tl
i occasion.
I "Can you manage to clasp each ot
er's hands?" ho asked simply.
Then with llio bride on her knees
the dirt clasping the hand of tl
groom, across whom lay the olliciatii
clergyman, the ceremony was p<
formed.
As it finished Hilly Crawford g:
loped up.
! "What in thunder does this mean
lie gasped.
"It means." said Dempsey, "that yt
are just in time to help 111c git that do
goned conch off'n your son-in-law, Jol
I Joining, and t lie Itev. Mr. Whlttc
who performed tlie ceremony sou
what informal-like about five minut
ago."
Of two evils don't choose either.
ious constipatedI
to men look blue, I
ickly change to rosy hue, I
iamons Pills their work do do 1
on Drug Co.
\1LWAY WE RUN THE I
S THROUGH A BEST VESTI- I
BUIE miNS I
AND HAVE THE ?
i. HARDWICK, RFST DININfi I
>1 Pasasnger Agent, ""I um,nu ?
CAR SERVICE I
:?nt, Atlanta, Ca. s
^ I "^ Hj'^ 1
Jy ; Mrs. Fred Unrath,
I,., Frealilent ( Aiintry Club, Drnlon
lu llnrbor, Midi.
" "After my first baby was born I did not
,u' | seem to regain my strength although the
I doctor gave me a tonic which he consid?el
crcd very superior, but instead c< getting
ho better I grew weaker every day. Aty bus,.,1
band insisted that I take Wine of Cardui
xv | for a wesk and see what it would do for
; me. I did la!.e the medicine and was very
grateful to find my strength and health
slowly returning. In two weeks I was out j
W } of bed and in a -month I was able to take
oil up my usual duties. I am very enthusij
astic in Its praise."
Winoof Cardui reinforces theorgaps
of generation for the ordeal of progig
naney ami childbirth. It prevents in is- i
or carriage. No wdiuan who takes Wine ,
r-.i of Cardui need fear the coining of her
I..-IJ If Al. IT .1 I I l l 1
; uuiiui ii iurs. unram nau uuten
,l Wine of Cardui before her bnby tjamo
she would not have been weakened as
she was. Her rapid recovery should
xl commend this great remedy to e very <
| expectant mother. Wine of Crjdui |
ie 1 regulates the menstrual flow. I
'I twi^EorCAEtmir) :
11 A Glimpse of Tennyson.
Wilfrid Ward in "Problems and Porsons"
tells this, illustrating Tennyson's
,l mixture of liaslifulness and dogmatism: ;
if a stranger had come to see him
lS the shyness and abstraction might last |
longer. I remember once going to 4
10 I-'arrington with a friend?a true wur- j
'b ship- r of his genius?and after the lirst ;
l" words of greeting lie seeyied to he entirely
in the clouds until, after long
10 wailing, we hit upon n device to arouse
'y him. A picture by Edward Lear bung
n? in the room, and under it were four
lines from "The Palace of Art:"
1L Or.o seemed all dark and red, a tract of
Pt Kami.
lg And some one pacing there alone,
e. Who paced forever In a glimmering land.
Lit with a low, large moon,
re ,
,r We were looking at the picture, and i
I said to my companion, "Head the
ot lines." She read them, giving them a ;
kind or metrical Jingle. In a moment j
[ C Tennyson, w iio had been ?(ai.-ru?>? I
alone at the otiier side of the room, !
u stepped rapidly across, seized licr arm !
,? ' and said, "IKni't read them like that,"
nn,l TITtflt LU ?
jlj ...iv? ...... ...i ..mi jiio ui-t'ii, sonorous 1
voire to rend, or, rather, chant, thoin '
himself with tlie roll which was so well
known to his friends.
)(] n nndem of Wales.
Tlte womh rs of Wales are: (1) Snowdon.
the highest peak of southern IJritain;
(2) Overtoil churchyard, Flintu?
shire, with its yew trees of great anro
tiquity: (.'h the line peal of-*bells of
,n Gresford thurcli, Denbighshire; (4)
a Llangollen bridge, In the beautiful
vale, built by Bishop Trevor in 131.", a
[1C singular structure of four pointed
arches, the two center spans beinjf
I,, smaller than the two ends; (.") Wrexham
church tower, a richly decorated
jn structure of six stages, 135 feet high,
|lC on three sides of which are rows of
saints in canopied niches; (0) Pystyl
,r. lthaydr waterfall, Radnor, almost destroyed
by alterations in the river bed
,j. In 1780; (7) St. Winifred's well, Holywell,
around which cluster endless trnyt
ditions.
St. Winifred was martyred by Caraou
doe in the seventh century, and a chapel
was built to her memory by Margaret,
in queen of Henry VII., in 1400, whither
,n pilgrims have resorted from the earliest
ie' times, even down to 1801, leaving becg
hind them votive offerings in the shape ,
ui ituk'iips nuu invnuu cnairs.
She Knew the nennon. *
He was smoking nml musing ovorllio
ways of tlic world. "()?1?1, isn't it," ho
said at last, "how few people attain
their ideals this worldV"
"In what way?" inquired his wife
susphvnusly, for she was not a woman
to he caught off her guard.
"Well," he replied slowly, "I was
thinking of Wilmor when I spoke. lie
had an ideal woman that he was always
talking about when he was in
eolleue. She*was tall and stately in his
dreams, and he seemed to have no
place in his heart for a small woman,
and yet?and yet"?
"Well?"
"Why, ho family married a little
thing who hardly comes to his shoulder.
I wonder why it was?"
"Perhaps, Fred," alio snid very slowly
and distinctly, "he is like the majority
of other men and was afraid to take
^ any one of ids size."
lie changed the subject.?New York
Times.
St. Martin nnd the Dictionary.
St. \lnrtln when lie divided his cape
wittf a naked beggar at the gate of
' Amiens gave also two words to the
ICnglish language. The oratory in which
this torti capo was preserved as a sacred
hauner acquired the name of "cliapelle"
(from the French "chape"), the
ifustoaian being termed "chaplain," and
thns our English words ''chapel" and
"chaplain" are derived.?Westminster
Gazette.
Economical.
"Doesn't it cost you a good deal to
run this yacht, old man?" ,
"Yes, but my wife can^t spend a cent .
when she's here." f
r y
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Aii Anecdote of Dlarnrll,
On one occasion Disraeli's linbit of
exaggerated adulation led to so bold nil
nttempt by the fair recipient to ten ?t
to her advantage that he was driven to
save the situation in a way that was
very far from being appreciated. The
charmer, a young lady of "advanced
views." finding the great man so exceedingly
profuse in bis attentions,
thought it an excellent opportunity for
making him a convert to her Utopian
ideals, which wetje of the most daringly
democratic order. After a long recitation
of her propaganda she wound up
with a fervid appeal to the prime minis'er
to Immortalize himself by espousing
her ingenious panacea for remedying
the wrongs of humanity. As she
finished her impassioned harangue,
with flushed cheeks and flashing eye.
Disraeli, who had been silently watching
her with apparently the profoundost
sympathy and admiration, suddenly
dropped his eyeglass and softly murmured.
"Oh, you darling!" "If it had
been at dinner," she afterward declared,
"and I had had a knife I would
have stabbed him!"?Blackwood's.
ni'iilgo II ti 11 <1 i ii kc Itrut Iterliooiln.
It was in France that brotherhoods
for building bridges lirst took shape.
In 117S a bridge was begun over the
Itlione at Avignon by Saint Benezct,
I lie bead of a body called Frntres I'onlis.
who undertook the building and
repairing of bridges during the middle
iges. A second soon followed at St.
lOsprit.
About the same time I'eter of Cole huivh.
the lieml of a similar brotherliood
in F^glaud. began the first stone
jridge over the Thames at London.
In many eases when - a bridge was
built a chapel was founded, to which
a priest was attached to pray for the
3011I of the founder, to receive money
nftd to offer prayers with the passen
in iv/i il KUV JUUHH.7.
The strange Gothic triangular bridge
at Crowlaiul. over three streams, alluded
to in a charter of 041), was built by
the abbot of Crowlnnd, and Abbot
llernard built the Ilurton bridge over
tlie Trent, the longest In England, l..r?:i4
feet long, which carries the roadway
over thirty-six nrclies.?London Globe.
The Wicked Multiplication Table.
A minister was bearing his Sunday
school repeat the catechism one Sunday
preceding confirmation when a
boy from the class of small children
ventured to ask a question of the minister.
Turning to the clergyman, the boy
inquired in an anxious tone, "Why
does tlie multiplication table make people
wicked?"
The minister thought at first that
the child had taken occasion to propound
a conundrum at a most unseemly
time and was about to reprove him
when the enrnestnpss of the expression
in the upturned face assured him that
the question was asked in good faltli
and required a reply.
"Why do you ask such a question,
John? I never knew it to do so,"^ he
said.
John- turned to his catechism and
road from it with a mystified air the
question, "Dkl man grow worse as he
began, to multiply?*' and the accompanying
answer, "He did."
Not a Gooil Mechanic.
Intelligence is more than books and
letters?it is knowledge df the forces of
nature and Ingenuity enough 'to use
them for human service. The negro
is generally acknowledged to be lack
ing in "the mechanical idea." In Africa
lie hardly knows the simplest mechanical
principles, such as that of the
lever. In America the brightest of negroes
were trained during slavery by
tlrolr masters in the handicrafts, such
as carpentry, shoomaklng, spinning,
weaving, blacksinitliing, tailoring, and
so on. A plantation became a self supporting
unit under the oversight and
discipline of the whites, but the work
of the negro artisans was "for the most
part careless and Inefficient." Since
emancipation the young generation has
not learned the mechanical trades to
the same extent as the slave generations.
Moreover, as machinery supplants
tools and factories supplant
handicrafts the negro Is left still farther
behind. ? John R. Commons In
Chautauquan.
Had the Evidence.
"Are these eggs fresh?"
"I just bought them from a fresh
young woman."
It Was Coming to Him.
"One of his ancestors was hung."
"Too bad he didn't Inherit the tendency."
Don't Have ai
ing D
I, - We are rec
I supplies, and ]
I Don't pay 25c i
r by parties whi
I will be put in*
a will guarantee
I Bailey Lumt
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Crown and Bridge
Work a Spaoialtv.
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iSumcr cn7> PhiSosophy
Dy DUNCAN M. SMITH
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Copyright, 1SKW. by Saiiip.Mjn-1 lodges Co.
TERT PARAGRAPHS.
There was a woman at the bottom of
! it when Maggie fell into the well.
An emergency Is a case of unexpected
company on Sunday.
The best Is the
m dearest in the
case of girls.
If it were not
for the fools,
jl cad heats and
sharpers would
have to go to
Eternal hustle is the price Of success.
?
j The beauties of a snowstorm are
more appealing when viewed from a
comfortable second story window than
when seen from the middle of a drift.
! - *
If some people were as luminous as
they think they are the world would
he one dazzling blaze of glory.
The best thing ahout a Christmas programme
is that It can't be repeated for
? year at least.
The health of the small boy ?shows n
great improvement during the skating
season.
l ucre is noi so ^
very much (Uf- h/
fcrcnce between r\^W/7
giving ami IIv- /fffix
Maybe a thief JX \?/ j/lX\
can catch a thief, ('/I A VI
hut why should 1 } )] 1 t\ \
he do It? 7 / J Vjq^
rcrliaps pride <* " - VST
goes before a fail, but It la sure to
come after a bit.
! Little girls are never too young to notice
whether their hats are becoming to
them.
Whon a map begins offering to help
his wife abont tbe house It Is time to
call in the doctor.
The Usual Thing.
She wrought with patient, loving pride
A garment for her fiance;
The back was short, the sleeves were
wide,
And worked with silk In colors gay.
She fondly hoped that when he mused
In Idle hours with his cigar
Ift'd wear the coat, while ho confused
Tho things to be with things that are.
And so she sent It by express
That he might get it Christmas day,
Bestowing on it a caress
Before she serft It on its way.
He took It from Its coverings
And held It upside down, and then
i He said he wondered how such things
j Could bc?accepiablc to men.
He tossed it in a closet dim
Among Hon^ slippers badly mired
And wrote to say she'd sent to him
Tho t)iing that he had long desired.
Can't Afford to Lose Her Now.
"What makes Roberts so attentive to
his wife?"
"Slio has threatened to sue him for
a divorce."
"I did not think a little thing like
that would feaze him."
"Oh, you see; her millionaire uncle is
] about to die, and Roberts considers
! that It would be had judgment to let
her cut loose now."
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Mean Thing.
Ernestine?Will Grnntley Is the meanest
man I know.
Josephine?Why, what has he done?
Enipittliin?I l?n/l (lm J-''
>??? iiiu vivYciraw juivu
of tho year on blin and meant to tell
It to nil the girls.
Josephine?Dhl you tell It?
Ernestine?No. lie went before me
and told every one of them.
ly Connections HI
lone Until You I
reiving a large stoo
nave employed an gj
>er foot for haying oon
:> will be gone, when
We are in the busint
> all work.
ier and Manuf
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Office Bank Building
Union, 8. O
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Health Rnlem '
One of Queen Victoria's health role*
Is said lo have been. "Do whatever yon
like, but (lo It in moderntIon," or words
to that effect, and a similar rtie might
be adopted with still greater profit by
the men and women of the present'day.
The people of Queen Victoria's generation
bad not made a fad of health, and
every newspaper tbey pieked np did
not worry tbom with confllotfng hygienic
rules. The no breakfast fiend,
if be existed, was less prominent than
at present, and those who thought that
the first ought to be the best meal of
the day did not publish their rlews
from every roof top, figuratively speaking.
Vegetnrians nnd meat caters wrangled
only in Inconspicuous corners, and
the devotees of the cold bath were content
with fewer victims. Today, when
all these nnd a million other so called
health rules are being dinned Into the
ears of a long suffering public on all ,
sides, It Is more thnir'ever important
#to bear In. mind that inclinations and
disinclinations wore not arbitrarily implanted
by nature in animal organisms;
that Jthey exist for our guidance and
not solely to mislead us. ? New York
Tribune.
A Man and a Hatpin.
( In a tbenter recently a man down In
I one of the front rows spied on the floor
n large hatpin with an amber top.
Looking about him, he saw that two
women auil their escorts had Just sat
down. To one of the former he preeented
the pi a. A shake of the head lndl
catod that he had made a mistake.
Then he tried across the aisle. The women
seemed to be interested. The pin
was a "curiosity and its an\ber of a .
unique carving. They hesitated, but
the pin was handed back. Desperately ?
he. began the search now. Two ladies %
'unattended soeiued likely owners. To
them lie showed the pin. They took it
and enjoyed Its pattern. Just then the
man felt a tug on ids sleeve. It was his
wife, and she remarked, "Why are yon
showing my hatpin to strangers?" He
blushed, went over to the feminine pair
and explained. ' 'It's my wife's hatpin,"
he said, but in such (lusciously guilty
ncceuts thnt the women handed it back
with doubting smiles.
The Coup <1e Bfon?crr?t.
The fatal Issue 'of a recent French
duel causes discussion of what the Parisian
fencers call the "coup de'Monserrat."
The history of this stroke Is ro*.
mantle. The hero qf the story was a
young rarislan musician engaged to be v ?
married to a young Indy of Bordeaux.
QunrrgUiig with a cousin of his fiancee,
he got^is cars boxed at the Bordeaux
club. Ignorant of fencing, he dared
not resent the insult and renounced his
engagement But he also took fencing
lessons from one Monserrat a toaltre
d'nrmi'8 of Toulouse. Monserrat taught
him one trick only, and he practiced it
for n year. At the end of thnt time he
returned to the Bordeaux club, slapped
his man's face and, being called out,
instantly ran ids opponent through the
body with ids cunning lunge.
The Pill anil the Coating.
Joseph Savador, the French historian,
and Jules Sandeau, a novelist
mad^ their meeting at a public reception
the occasion for a dispute as to the
rcsjieetlve places which they occupied
In the world of letters. ,
"The reading of history If like a pill?
It needs the sugar coating to make It
palatable," argued the novelist.
"Ah, but it Is the ingredient Which
cures, not the coating," remarked the
nisiorian.
"Then let us divide honors/' ?aid
Snndeau, "for if it were not for my
sugar coating your historical facts
would dry on the shelves."
_ %
Truth Is not a farthing rushlight,
and it is n good deal farther from being
a gas bill.
A course In cooking or a dimple Is
not necessary In order for a girl to
make n marriage, but either Is nn adjunct
uot to be despised. '
Sang of the Boy With the Cutter.
Chin the belleB, chin the belles,
Chin them all the way I
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