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[handwriting changed, likely Maud recording]

Oh thir [sic: their] going to pump out lakerie [Lake Erie]
thir [sic: their] going to comince [sic: commence] in June and
when they get it all pumped out thir [sic: their]
be whispers on the moon.



Oh did you ever go to a baseball
match and pay your fifty cents
while other good people get up on
the steaple [sic: steeple] and look clean over
the fence and when they begin to
play the kids they all will cry
get down on the grass and slide
on your ass and wate [sic: wait] till the
clods [sic: clouds] roll by


Oh I rember [sic: remember] the day I landed they
thold [sic: told] me to go back agan [sic: again] the kids
would cry get on to the gey but I got
thir [sic: their; there] just the same

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abrorrer

Really interesting allusion to pumping of water from Lake Erie to areas outside of Kingston in 1890s.