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Notes By Occasional Harvard Commuters

The Boston and Maine

Has a railroad train

That goes so slow

It's a gol-durned shame.

(But folks still ride it just the same.)

The engineer

is Harry Brown

and he hates to get

past Charlestown.

(On the least excuse he'll slow 'er down.)

From this it is plain

that the Boston and Maine

is in business for money

but not for gain.

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