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Rh "There's a girl in Jersey City who works on the telephone;

"We're going to hitch our horses and dig for a house of our own,

"With gas and water connections, and steam-heat through to the top;

"And, W. Hohenzollern, I guess I shall work till I drop."

And an English delegate thundered: "The weak an' the lame be blowed!

"I've a berth in the Sou'-West workshops, a home in the Wandsworth Road;

"And till the 'sociation has footed my buryin' bill,

"I work for the kids an' the missis. Pull up! I'll be damned if I will!"

And over the German benches the bearded whisper ran:—

"Lager, der girls und der dollars, dey makes or dey breaks a man.

"If Schmitt haf collared der dollars, he collars der girl deremit;

"But if Schmitt bust in der pizness, we collars der girl from Schmitt."