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"Drill, my paddies, drill! / Drill, you tarriers, drill! / O, it's work all day, / No sugar in your tay -- / Wor-rkin' on th' U. Pay. / Ra-a-ailway!"
THE rousing chant rang gaily upon the thin air of Western spring. Sitting Jenny, the old yellow mule, for a moment's breather while the load of rails was being swept from his flat-car truck, Terry Richards had to smile.