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Old friends allus is the best, / Halest-like and heartiest: / Knowed us first, and don't allow / We're so blame much better now! / They was standin' at the bars / When we grabbed "the kivvered kyars" / And lit out fer town, to make / Money -- and that old mistake!
We thought then the world we went / Into beat "The Settlement," / And the friends 'at we'd make there / Would beat any anywhere! -- / And they do -- fer that's their biz: / They beat all the friends they is -- / 'Cept the raal old friends like you / 'At staid at home, like I'd ort to!