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The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, / She told the lawyer man her tale in tones of deepest woe. / Said she, 'My husband took to drink for pains in his inside, / And never drew a sober breath from then until he died.
'He never drew a sober breath, he died without a will, / And I must sell the bit of land the childer's mouths to fill. / There's some is grown and gone away, but some is childer yet, / And times is very bad indeed -- a livin's hard to get.