Of My Merit On Thet Pint You Yourself May Jedge; All Is, I Never Drink No Sperit, Nor I Haint Never Signed No Pledge.

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Of my merit
On thet pint you yourself may jedge;
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
-- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. vii

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