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BEEN THERE BEFORE

The yokels laughed at his hopes o'erthrown,
And he stood awhile like a man in a dream;
Then out of his pocket he fetched a stone,
And pelted it over the silent stream—
He had been there before: he had wandered down
On a previous visit to Walgett town.