Gus’s Favorite Song

The old gray mare she sits on the whipple tree;

Sits on the whipple tree; sits on the whipple tree;

The old gray mare, she sits on the whipple tree,

All the whole day long.

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Is your boss broadminded?

I should say so; he was out with two last night.

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Pat and Mike staggered weakly to the rail of the pitching liner. “Begorra,” said Pat, “Oi don’t blame Christ for walking.”