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"Must have money longa poodin'!" Cheon added, and our wealth lying also in a cheque book, it was not until after a careful hunt that two threepenny bits were produced, when one, with a hole in it, went in "for luck," and the other followed as an omen for wealth.
"If we're to help you wi' that 'ere poodin', let's have at it at once." Thus admonished, Mrs Gore and her recovered progeny set to work and fabricated a plum-pudding, which was nearly as hard, almost as heavy as, and much larger than a sixty-four pound cannon ball.
In a very few seconds Lieutenant Gordan, the regular army officer at the academy, came marching briskly down the street in the dusk, his face so red that it almost seemed to glow like a light. Stopping short in front of the lone plebe, he called: "Sir!" Ephraim kept on with "An' there he saw the boys an' gals Ez thick ez hasty poodin'." "Sir!" came sharply from the lieutenant.
"Dot vos der stuff. Let her go, Gallup!" So the country lad opened his mouth and began to sing in a droning, drawling way: "Yankee Dewdle came ter taown 'Long with Cap'n Goodwill, An' there he saw the boys an' gals As thick ez hasty poodin'." "Louder!" commanded several voices. So Ephraim repeated the stanza, singing still louder.
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