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Sis: gentlemen upon tine road,     And now the turnpike gates again
                            Thus seeing Gilpin fly,             Flew open in short Bpace;
                          With postboy scampering in the  The toll-inen thinking, as before,
                                 rear,                          That Gilpin, rode a race.
                            They raised the hueand o ry :- And £Ci ^  ^           m n #  ^
                          rt,                   f       .  u    For he got first to town;
                          stop  thief!  stop  thief !-a  high-  Nor stopp'd, till where he M mIm
                                 wayman  !                      He did again get down,
                            Not one of them was mute;                    6    a
                          And all and each that pass’d that  iTow let us sing, long live the ting!
                                 way                            And Gilpin, long live he;
                            Did join in the pursuit.         And when he nest doth ride abroad,
                                                                May I bo there to see 1
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