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When My Ship Comes In

by Robert Jones Burdette

Whether you interpret this as sincere, overly simplistic, or cynical is up to you!

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Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in The Hawk Eye newspaper in Burlington, Iowa. Mary G. Burdette was his sister. He was born in Gree...

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