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The brat seen 'im, an' sung to 'im an' talked to 'im, an' he confessed; said Andy didn't do the shootin' but was tryin' to stop it, just as the kid allers claimed." "Yep," interrupted Letts, earnestly. "That air the way it were." Jake nodded and continued: "Sure, Sandy, us-uns all knowed ye swore false on the trial.... Well, next day, Young an' the brat went to Albany to see the guvener."
School children shouted it everywhere, people on the street repeated it as they met, and the funny rhyme was heard even in polite drawing-rooms, amid roars of laughter. Mr. Robinson went abroad, but scarcely had he landed in Liverpool before he heard a child crooning over to himself, Fer John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B.
You will want to turn to "Lowell's Poetical Works" and read the whole piece. There is a story that Mr. Robinson couldn't go anywhere after this poem was published without hearing some one humming or reciting, Fer John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B.
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