<h2><SPAN name="A_DANIEL_COME_TO_JUDGMENT1" id="A_DANIEL_COME_TO_JUDGMENT1"></SPAN>A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT<SPAN name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></SPAN><SPAN href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</SPAN></h2>
<h3>BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE</h3>
<p><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Now, everything that Russell did, he did his best to hasten,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And one day he decided that he'd like to be a Mason;</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But nothing else would suit him, and nothing less would please,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But he must take, and all at once, the thirty-three degrees.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 1em;">So he rode the—ah, that is, he crossed the—I can't tell;</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You either must not know at all, or else know very well.</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He dived in—well, well, never mind! It only need be said</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That somewhere in the last degree poor Russell dropped down dead.</span><br/>
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<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They arrested all the Masons, and they stayed in durance vile</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Till the jury found them guilty, when the Judge said, with a smile,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"I'm forced to let the prisoners go, for I can find," said he,</span><br/>
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"No penalty for murder in the thirty-third degree!"</span><br/>
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