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The Clergyman, ‘This story is mere pain,’
Exclaimed, ‘for if the women don't sustain
The moral standard, all we do is vain.’
‘But what we want,’ the Yankee said, ‘to know,
Is if the girl went willingly or no.
Sufficient motive though one does not see,
'Tis clear the grocer used some trickery.’