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BORES.

And went to some outlandish place,

To buy a ranch and sheep to raise.

Another hour thus drags away

Before Jack really says "Good-day."

And he has scarce departed when

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Tom Tough, one of your silent men,

Comes in, and stays an hour more.

He is a very harmless bore,

Who does not try to be thought funny,

And ends by borrowing some money.

An easy-going fellow he,

Blessed with convenient memory,

To recollect or quite forget

If you or he is still in debt.

But still he does n't pretend to know

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