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Then he slept for a minut'—then raised up and cried,
“Bring the fiddle here quick! for she seems at my side!”

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An' he snatched up the bow, and upon my dear word,
He played “Rory O'More” schwate as ever you heard!
And he sunk—wid a smile of affection and pride,
And then followed the Doc's last prescription, an' died.