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Did he swear with his leg in a spring-steel trap / And a tongue dry-cracked from thirst? / Or down on his knees at his lady's lap / With the lady's lips to his own, mayhap, / And his head and his heart aburst? / Nay! I have listened to vows enough / And never the oath could bind / Save that, that a free man chose to take / For his own good reputation's sake! / They're qualified--they're tricks--they break-- / They're words, the other kind!
MAHOMMED GUNGA had long ago determined to "go it blind" on Cunningham.