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Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking Strove in an election fight; And you'd think, to hear them talking, Each upheld the people's right. Each declared he stood for Progress and against his country's foes When he sought their votes at Wombat, where the Muddy River flows.

Peter Dawking, scorning party, As an Independent ran; Joseph Jones, loud, blatant, hearty, Was a solid party man. But the electors up at Wombat vowed to him alone they'd stick Who would give his sacred promise for the "bridge across the crick."