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When The Lid Was On.

    By Edwin C. Ranck



    They were seated there in silence
        Each one busy with a frown,
    It was midnight in the city,
        And the lid was on the town.
    They had all been playing poker
        'Mid the rattle of the chink,
    When a gloom fell o'er the party,
        For they couldn't buy a drink,
    But a little fellow whispered
        As he held a poker hand,
    "Can't we get as drunk on water
        As we can upon the land?"
    Then we kicked the little rascal,
        And we spoke without a frown,
    And we anchored safe in harbor
        When the lid was on the town.



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