<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373828" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jack McGuire</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would have lynched me<br>Had I not been secretly hurried away<br>To the jail at Peoria.<br>And yet I was going peacefully home,<br>Carrying my jug, a little drunk,<br>When Logan, the marshal, halted me,<br>Called me a drunken hound and shook me,<br>And, when I cursed him for it, struck me<br>With that Prohibition loaded cane --<br>All this before I shot him.<br>They would have hanged me except for this:<br>My lawyer, Kinsey Keene, was helping to land<br>Old Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank,<br>And the judge was a friend of Rhodes<br>And wanted him to escape,<br>And Kinsey offered to quit on Rhodes<br>For fourteen years for me.<br>And the bargain was made. I served my time<br>And learned to read and write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373828" data-title="Jack McGuire de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried away To the jail at Peoria. And yet I was going peacefully home, Carrying my jug, a little drunk, When Logan, the marshal, halted me, Called me a drunken hound and shook me, And, when I cu..."></div> </div> </div>

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