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Roger Heston

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Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I         Argue about the freedom of the will.         My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cow         Roped out to grass, and free you know as far         As the length of the rope.         One day while arguing so, watching the cow         Pull at the rope to get beyond the circle         Which she had eaten bare,         Out came the stake, and tossing up her head,         She ran for us.         "What's that, free-will or what?" said Ernest, running.         I fell just as she gored me to my death.

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