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Of course I will except the women;
Indeed without them dry place ’twould be,
Surrounded by water in midst of the sea:
Twenty-four hours is a long stay,
Among tories or shylocks when you can’t get away,
So I took the freight train for Kingville,
So recently cured of the eating ill,
For six sixty-six a dinner I got,
To travelling soldiers such rare lot;
Hasting dinner have hasten’d my verse,
Left out adventures, flying the course:
Then pick’d a crow with Bank of Charleston,
We ate the crow and business done.
Leaving the Madame’s, going down the street,
A grandee railman chanc’d to meet,
He put in my hand a little paper—
Telegraph—which will cut a caper;
Cousin Sam had got so militant,
To citizens passports he will not grant;
Good for me, had just gotten passport,
’Twas well I had concluded to go it.
At the depot met a man in a stew,
When the train would go could get no clue,
A sub-rail had pok’d him with jaw,
He wanted me to practice Lynch’s law,
Answer’d him I had the point,
To lower would get out of joint.
In confusion another I met,
Who also seemed disposed to fret,
I showed him the track, and where
