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Show An easfkkn journal has been rum-nut'uin rum-nut'uin among tho musty records of tho past, and discovered the fuel that Tom Hood's touching lyric, "The Sjng oi tho Sniri" was composed in ono evening. It was not satisfied, howevur, at:d proceeding furtbor, found mid gave to its readers that tho poem, "TlieOld Oaken Bucket," vms written over filly yearB ago, by a printer named Woadwort'.i, a man well known na having a propcuaiiy for water and brandy. Tho poem wta written in the printing oltico in wh'u h Woodwork was employed, and w.k-, tho work of half an hour. |