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The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore

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The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore (1928)
by Robert E. Howard

First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1 (2007), where it appears in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928.

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The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore

Guzzle your beer, you lazy louse!
Boast of your lack of knowledge,
And you may go to the bawdy house
But I shall go to college!


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