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by Unknown

FROM “POEMS HERE AT HOME.”

WAS for Union—you, ag’in’ it.

’Pears like, to me, each side was winner,

Lookin’ at now and all ’at ’s in it.

Le’ ’s go to dinner.

Le’ ’s kind o’ jes’ set down together

And do some pardnership forgittin’—

Talk, say, for instance, ’bout the weather,

Or somepin’ fittin’.