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    "text": "The sudden death of Eugene Carman",
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   {
    "text": "Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month,",
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   {
    "text": "And I told my wife and children that night.",
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   {
    "text": "But it didn’t come, and so I thought",
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   {
    "text": "Old Rhodes suspected me of stealing",
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    "text": "The blankets I took and sold on the side",
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    "text": "For money to pay a doctor’s bill for my little girl.",
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    "text": "Then like a bolt old Rhodes accused me,",
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   {
    "text": "And promised me mercy for my family’s sake",
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   {
    "text": "If I confessed, and so I confessed,",
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   {
    "text": "And begged him to keep it out of the papers,",
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    "text": "And I asked the editors, too.",
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    "text": "That night at home the constable took me",
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    "text": "And every paper, except the Clarion,",
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    "text": "Wrote me up as a thief",
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    "text": "Because old Rhodes was an advertiser",
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    "text": "And wanted to make an example of me.",
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   {
    "text": "Oh! well, you know how the children cried,",
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    "text": "And how my wife pitied and hated me,",
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    "text": "And how I came to lie here.",
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