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STEPHEN DOWLING BOTS.
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Though sad hearts round him thickened,
'Twas not from sickness' shots.

No whooping-cough did rack his frame,
Nor measles drear, with spots:
Not these impaired the sacred name
Of Stephen Dowling Bots.

man holding dripping wet small boy; woman crying
"THEY GOT HIM OUT AND EMPTIED HIM."

Despised love struck not with woe
That head of curly knots,
Nor stomach troubles laid him low,
Young Stephen Dowling Bots.