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 "title": "An Average Rule to Judge of Cheese",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "An average rule it will be found",
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    "text": "Ten pounds of milk will nmke one pound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of cheese, will sell in numbers round",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wholesale at ten cents a pound.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "In season, factory can with ease",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make quarter million pounds of cheese,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which doth sum up the figures grand",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In dollars, twenty-five thousand.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Judge of the stream of milk doth flow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To factories in Ontario,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where they number one thousand",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Scattered o’er this fair, fertile land.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "One company hath branches near",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Makes o’er one million pounds a year;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They fill an order in a trice",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thus obtain a higher price.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "So quickly they can make car load",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To fill an order from abroad;",
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    "text": "Advantage cheese has over grain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In shipping it across the main.",
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   {
    "text": "It is great saving in the freight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its value is six times as great",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each pound, as barley, wheat or peas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So it pays best to ship the cheese.",
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