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The boys they came crowding in fast;

They drew their stools close round about him,

Six glims round his coffin they placed-- [6]

He couldn't be well waked without 'em,

I ax'd if he was fit to die,

Without having duly repented?

Says Larry, 'That's all in my eye,

And all by the clargy invented,

To make a fat bit for themselves.

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