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PERSONAL LIBERTY' by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: SAID THE MAN TO THE SALOON-KEEPER, 'YOUR WORK MALVOLENT
Last Line: "And the Rummy answered, ""Personal fldlesticks”"
Subject(s): PERSONAL RIGHTS; BARS & BARTENDERS;

Said the Man to the Saloon-Keeper, "Your work malevolent
Increases all my taxes full seventy-flve per cent."
And the Rummy answered, "Personal liberty:"

Said the Man to the Saloon-Keeper, "Your execrable trade
Is teaching all my rulers their own laws to evade."
And the Rummy answered, "Personal liberty I"

Said the Man to the Saloon -Keeper, "My heart Is full uf woe.
For I see your wretched victims whatever way I go."
And the Rummy answered, "Personal liberty I"

Said the Man to the Saloon-Keeper. "Your pestilent decoy
Is capturing and maddening and ruining my boy."
And the Rummy answered, "Personal liberty!"

Said the Man to the Saloon Keeper, "I'll ex- ercise right soon
My 'personal liberty' to smash your vile saloo,
And the Rummy answered, "fiddlesticks!"



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