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Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.
My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cow / Roped out to grass, and free you know as far / As the length of the rope.
One day while arguing so, watching the cow / Pull at the rope to get beyond the circle / Which she had eaten bare, / Out came the stake, and tossing up her head, / She ran for us.
"What's that, free-will or what? " said Ernest, running.
I fell just as she gored me to my death.