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 I took me ten years smilin', glad I didn't get the rope!— But the next time! Oh, a plenty while I'm gittin'! For this guy tore off half a state an' shook the other half; He robbed his friends an' neighbors an' he handed both the laugh— But you oughta heard him holler at that one or two year gaff. You'd better git a plenty while yer gittin'!

An' so he's here a trusty, while I wear a ball an' chain— (They say he beat most every statoot written.) He's got a fortune planted an' all I've got's a pain; You'd better git a plenty while yer gittin'! He cost the state a million bucks before they put him here; He had ten lawyers for his trial, w'ich lasted most a year; An' the jedge who had to sentence him pronounced it wit' a tear— It pays to git a plenty while yer gittin'!

The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang

(See pages 196, 689)

They showed me a beautifully shaped old bell, which is in Independence Hall, and is called the Bell of Liberty; which means that at its ringing all men within sound of its voice know they are free. But they do not ring it any more because it is cracked. Is Liberty cracked also?