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There's a nursery
rhyme, you should

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have in the back of
your mind by the time

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we get to the end of
this poem and it goes.

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Ding, dong bell
pussy's in the well.

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Who put her in?

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Little Tommy Lynn.

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Who took her out?

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Little Johnny Stout.

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What a naughty boy is that to
try to drown poor pussycat who

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never did him any harm but
killed the mice in his father's

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barn.

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OK, that's the one my speaker
has in mind at the end.

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"The horses run back
to their stalls."

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"It's another sorry tale
about class in America,

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I'm sure you're
right, but you have

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to imagine how proud we were.

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Your grandfather
painted a banner

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that hung from Wascher's
Pub to Dianis's grocery

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across the street.

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Reigh Count, Kentucky
Derby winner, 1928.

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And washtubs filled
with French champagne.

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I was far too young to
be up at the stables

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myself, of course,
it took me years

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to understand they must
have meant in bottles

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in the washtubs, with ice.

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His racing colors
were yellow and black,

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like the yellow cabs,
which is how Mr Hertz first

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made the money that built the
barns that bred the horses,

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bred at last this perfect
horse, our 120 seconds

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of flat out earth-borne bliss.

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He bought the Arlington
Racetrack then

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and Jens got a job that
for once in his life

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allowed him to pay the
mortgage and the doctors too,

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but he talked the loose way
even good men talk sometimes

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and old Hertz was
obliged to let him go.

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It was August, when the cab
strike in Chicago got so ugly.

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Somebody must have
tipped them off,

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since we learned later on that
the Count and the trainer who

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slept in his stall had
been moved to another barn.

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I'll never forget
the morning after--

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ash in the air all the
way to town and the smell

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of those poor animals,
who never harmed a soul.

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There's a nursery rhyme that
goes like that, isn't there?

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Never did us any harm.

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I think it's about
tormenting a cat."

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