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The Spook Ballads

THE ABDICATED CROWN.

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He WAS jolly, round, and fat, And with a bright top hat, A chain beneath his burly bosom set, In good old fashioned way, Said he to me, "I say Old boy, I have a thing that's to be met, A pressing little debt, The dunner has me set, My pocket is unfurnished, to be let! Five bob is all I ask," I 'sponded to the task, That abdicated crown is debit yet!

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