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 "book": "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume V",
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  "venue": "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume V (1911)",
  "note": "Taken from Volume V of the Neale collected edition (copyright 1911). That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance: the volume's own preface states that most of its verses are republished from newspapers and periodicals of the Pacific Coast, and which of them printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "Lo! Kearney, rising on his hinder legs,",
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   {
    "text": "For higher rates of freight and passage begs.",
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   {
    "text": "Time was when Dennis talked another way⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Because he drove an opposition dray.",
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    "text": "Thus, soon or late, to override the laws",
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   {
    "text": "All common carriers make common cause,",
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   {
    "text": "Pool the foul issues of their dirty lungs,",
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    "text": "Lick each other with fraternal tongues.",
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   {
    "text": "Crocker and Kearney, men of equal leather,",
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    "text": "Arcades ambo⁠—they are pigs together.",
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