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". . . Come, Kit, your pony is saddled. I'm waiting, dear, in the court . . . . . . Minnie, you devil, I'll kill you if you skip with that flossy sport . . . . . . How much does it go to the pan, Bill? . . . play up, School, and play the game . . . . . . Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name . . ."

This was the song of the parson's son, as he lay in his bunk alone, Ere the fire went out and the cold crept in, and his blue lips ceased to moan, And the hunger-maddened malamutes had torn him flesh from bone.