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With Apologies To Longfellow f Listen, my children, and yon shall hear - •Of the mid-night -walk of the rev- ’ elers. 'Taras in the fall of fifty-one, And a good night's sleep had jpst ' begun. When ont in the street was a terrible noise, 'And this was not the SperryvUle 'boys,' . ■ ' But a trio of "hoodlums,” out on ] * spree,: . v . ; .Yelling and calling my neighbor* and me. .v. *Up jumped one sleepy fellow, io - his window sped," :'y;' > Thinking his next-door neighbor .-"was dead. \ty It was on Main Street they caused tile alarm, % But this time it cannot be blamed on "Tom.” , Of her male independence Sperry-' ville can no lohfer boast, It’s dead as a hammer, even its ghost. . ' / ■’ Such clippity-ck-p as this trio v came slumming. Everyone was sure the "Mule , Train’’was coming. They Would’ve hung a lantern aloft in the old church tower. As they started .to meander at that .. ungodly hour,... - ■
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