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By rail I resolved to go, In the year of our Lord sixty-four, And of the twelfth day of April, From the village of Summerville, To Sumter via the town Kingville, Which really is convalescing still; Indeed if you desire a treat, You have only to stop there to eat. To Sumter we got in chary time, Before the clock had stricken nine; The day was pleasant, the voyage too, An old chum I met with, ladies too, But the next did prove to be That which the rails did confrere, From all the South to Columbia; The Camden train run through that day, So I bargained with good Blodget To hold up my old signal torch, By which I could save a day, And have less hotel bill to pay. My good Genii ever since the war, Awakes me promptly to the law, I took the train while yet ’twas night,