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A penny-liner, Abram Stout, / Was writing a description. / "The flame shot up," he pounded out-- / Then threw a mild conniption.
For through his Flemington there shied / A rocket, hot and mystic. / "I didn't mean to be," he cried, / "So deuced realistic!"