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944 We all rejoice At Maggie's voice : We all are fed With Maggie's bread. . . For Maggie may be Booties' Baby!"

They met a Bishop on their way. ..
 * A Bishop large as life,

With loving smile that seemed to say
 * "Will Maggie be my wife?"

Maggie thought not because, you see,
 * She was so very young,

And he was old as old could be. ..
 * So Maggie held her tongue.

"My Lord, she's Booties' Baby, we
 * Are going up and down,"

Her friend explained, "that she may see
 * The sights of Oxford Town."

"Now say what kind of place it is,"
 * The Bishop gaily cried.

"The best place in the Provinces!"
 * That little maid replied.

Away, next morning, Maggie went
 * From Oxford town: but yet

The happy hours she there had spent
 * She could not soon forget.

The train is gone, it rumbles on:
 * The engine-whistle screams;