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I lost my patronage in Spoon River / From trying to put my mind in the camera / To catch the soul of the person.
The very best picture I ever took / Was of Judge Somers, attorney at law.
He sat upright and had me pause / Till he got his cross-eye straight.
Then when he was ready he said "all right."
And I yell, "overruled" and his eye turned up.
And I caught him just as he used to look / When saying "I except. "