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The final course was ushered in at last,

When apple sauce around the board was passed;

As Uncle Jim stretched forth his hand across

The table to the dish of apple-sauce,

And on his ample pie tin placed some more,

A hurried knock resounded from the door,

And Steve McCoy, a miner in the camp,

With brow from snow and perspiration damp,

Rushed in, from out the white and whirling waste,