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I next sprung Pansy for a four-bit feed--

It was a giddy tax, but what care I?

We shot the bill-of-fare from soup to pie

And lemonade (that cost an extra seed).

"You're the cute plunge," says Pans', and I agreed

That at a spenderfest I wasn't shy,--

That when it came to rolling nickels by,

Willie the Cowboy was a perfect bleed.

She said that Thomas Lawson on a lark

Would faint away to see the way I blew;

She said I'd be the whizz in Central Park,

And Ready Cash to me seemed very few.

I asked her, Did she need a Valentine?

And she responded, "You're the pink for mine!"

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