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So we settled to try, and I down with my shillin',
Lek, contributin'—aw, puffeck willin'!
Contributin'—lek these meetin's they've got,
And golly ” this! and golly that!—
Missionaries—and round with the hat—
'Cited rather—and who would blame?
And longin' to be at the game.
 

Some faint echo of an anecdotic, nigger-dialectic “Deputation.