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 The Lights went out! The Windows broke The Room was filled with reeking smoke. And in the darkness shrieks and yells Were mingled with Electric Bells, And falling masonry and groans, And crunching, as of broken bones, And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all, The House itself began to fall! It tottered, shuddering to and fro. Then crashed into the street below— Which happened to be.

When Help arrived, among the Dead Cousin Mary,