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Der jungere Uhlanen / Sit round mit open mouth / While Breitmann tell dem stdories / Of fightin' in the South; / Und gif dem moral lessons, / How before der battle pops, / Take a little prayer to Himmel / Und a goot long drink of Schnapps. / _Hans Breitmann's Ballads._
'Mary, Mother av Mercy, fwhat the divil possist us to take an' kape this melancolious counthry? Answer me that, Sorr.'