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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455448" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sam's Racehorse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Sam Small retired from the Army <br>He'd a pension of ninepence a day,<br>And seven pounds fourteen and twopence <br>He'd saved from his rations and pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He knew this 'ere wasn't a fortune, <br>But reckoned with prudence and care<br>He'd find some investment to save him <br>From hard work and things like that there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thought he'd invest in a race orse, <br>As apart from excitement and fun<br>He'd be able to sit down in comfort<br>And live on the money he won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He knew buying 'orses was tricky, <br>But that didn't daunt him at all;<br>He said &quot;They must rise early 't mornin <br>As wants to play tricks on Sam Small!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he called on the local 'Orse-dealer <br>Surprise rooted him to the spot,<br>For he found 'twere his old Comp'ny Sergeant, <br>Whose kindness he'd never forgot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twere a happy reunion on both sides, <br>Their pleasure at meeting was great,<br>For each hoped to diddle the other <br>And wipe a few grudges off slate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sergeant brought out his race 'orses, <br>For which he asked various sums;<br>They hadn't a tooth left between them,<br>But Sam knew their age by their gums.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sam studied their lines and deportment <br>As Sergeant were trotting them round, <br>And told him he reckoned their value <br>Were fourpence, per race 'orse, per pound. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the Sarg. had a filly called Buster <br>As he hadn't said nothing about, <br>But when Sam turned his nose up at t'others <br>He thought as he'd best trot her out. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sam were struck with her youthful appearance,<br>Though there wasn't much light in the place,<br>For her teeth were all pearly and even <br>And there wasn't a line on her face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sergeant asked Sam twenty guineas, <br>But Sam, who were up to his tricks,<br>Pretended he thought he'd said shillings <br>And offered him eighteen and six.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the end he paid eight guineas for her, <br>And when he'd got home with the goods<br>He reckoned he'd not done so badly, <br>For three of the guineas was duds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But later, when he thought it over, <br>A doubt through his mind seemed to creep,<br>If Buster were all she were painted, <br>Why the Sergeant had sold her so cheap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He very soon found out the answer <br>When he looked at her close in her stall,<br>She'd the marks where her face had been lifted <br>And a mouth full of false teeth an' all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little walk home had fatigued her <br>And the cold air had started her cough;<br>Sam reckoned he'd best see the Sergeant <br>And tell him the bargain was off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place were locked up when he got there,<br>And he realized Sergeant had bunked,<br>So back he went home in a dudgeon <br>And found Buster lying-defunct.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sam knew if he wanted to sell her <br>He mustn't let on she were dead,<br>So he raffled her down at the Darts Club- <br>Forty members at five bob a head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The raffle were highly successful, <br>They all came in every man jack <br>And so's winner'd have no cause to grumble<br>Sam gave him his five shillings back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marriott+Edgar">Marriott Edgar</a><div class=q>
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He'd a pension of ninepence a day,
And seven pounds fourteen and twopence 
He'd saved from his rations and pay.

He knew this 'ere wasn't a fortune, 
But reckoned with prudence and care
He'd find some investme..."></div>
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