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Gus Gummer long had set his head / Upon some strange invention. / "Be careful, Gus," his good wife said; / "It might explode. I mention--"
Just then the pesky rocket flared / And wrecked that Yankee notion. / "I feared as much!" his wife declared; / Then fainted from emotion.