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A FAIR ELECTION.

The mastodon with dreadful tusks

Is in the thicket nigh:

I dare not go with thee.

"But worse than these would be my pa,

If I should run away;

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Mamma has always told me

Maidens at home must stay.

The woolly-haired rhinoceri

Would go unshorn each day

If I eloped with thee."

Disheartened by refusal

From this parent-bullied lass,

He stole a token from her lips

And plunged in the morass.

But as he neared the farther shore,

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