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Jim Bowker, he said, ef he’d had a fair shew. And a big enough town for his talents to grow, And the least bit of assistance in hoein’ his row, Jim Bowker, he said, He’d fill the world full of the sound of his name, An’ climb the top round in the ladder of fame, It may have been so; I dunno; Just so it might been, Then ag’in— But he had awful luck; everythin’ went ag’in him; The.arrers of fortune they allus’ud pin him; So he didn’t get ajchance to show what was in him, Jim Bowker, he said, 3Ef he had a fair show, you couldn’t tell where he’d come. A’n the feats he’d a-done an, the height he’d a- clumed, It may have been so; I dunno; Just so it might have been, Then ag’in— But we’re all like Jim Bowker, thinks I, more or less, Charge fate for our bad luck, ourselves for success, And give fortune the blame for all our distress, As Jim Bowker, he said, If it hadn’t been for luck, an’ misfortune, an’ sich, We might a-heen famous, an’ might a-heen rich, It might be jest so ; I dunno ; Jest so it might been, ■ Then ag’in——Yankee Blade,
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 10
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208Humour Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 24, 8 September 1894, Page 10
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