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Miss Mamie Briggs with no mean skill / Was playing "Casey's Fling" / To please her cousin, Amos Gill, / Who liked that sort of thing,
When suddenly the rocket, hot, / The old piano jumbled! / It stopped that rag-time like a shot, / Then through the ceiling rumbled.