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 Of course I will except the women; Indeed without them dry place ’twould be, Surrounded by water in midst of the sea: Twenty-four hours is a long stay, Among tories or shylocks when you can’t get away, So I took the freight train for Kingville, So recently cured of the eating ill, For six sixty-six a dinner I got, To travelling soldiers such rare lot; Hasting dinner have hasten’d my verse, Left out adventures, flying the course: Then pick’d a crow with Bank of Charleston, We ate the crow and business done. Leaving the Madame’s, going down the street, A grandee railman chanc’d to meet, He put in my hand a little paper— Telegraph—which will cut a caper; Cousin Sam had got so militant, To citizens passports he will not grant; Good for me, had just gotten passport, ’Twas well I had concluded to go it. At the depot met a man in a stew, When the train would go could get no clue, A sub-rail had pok’d him with jaw, He wanted me to practice Lynch’s law, Answer’d him I had the point, To lower would get out of joint. In confusion another I met, Who also seemed disposed to fret, I showed him the track, and where