Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1891 [PAGE 24]

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I known! These clothes I wear, what fiend maj tear Them Limb from Limb! If I were only with My girl, were only safely in the 'bus— But. what a space between myself and that Fair ark of .-afety! Why did I not do As he from Davenport.—con eal mv clothes At my fair damsel's home, and there prep-ire My toilet ': Ah. methinks I have an old And trusty pistol; that will clear the way Before me; happy thought! Now come, ye fiends! I'm ready for you!" Out into the dark The armed hero goe8, and. presently. Is welcomed by his girl. Without mishap 'I reach the place of merriment. Not FO

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His girl, one sought Bafe refuge 'neath a wheel;

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