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THE DEATH OF ROMEO AND JULIET
Romeo rode to the sepulchre, 'mong dead folks, bats, and creepers; And swallowed down the burning dose - when Julite oppened her peepers. "Are you alive? Or is't your ghost? speak quick before I go." "Alive!" she cried, "and kickking too; art thou my Romeo?" "It is your Romeo, my faded little blossum; O Juliet! is it possible that you were acting possum?" "I was indeed; now lets go home; pa's spite will have abated; What ails you, love, you stagger so; are you intoxicated?" "No, no, my duck; I took some stuff that caused a little fit;" He struggled hard to tell her all, but he coulden't, so he quit. In shorter time than't takes a lamb to ti wag his tale, or jump, Poor Romeo was as stiff as any whitewashed pump. Then Juliet seized that awful knife, and in her bosoum stuck it, Let out a most terrific yell, fell down, and kicket the bucket. |
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