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11. Hemming cotton.

“Hem them in!” is the country's cry;
See how the bayonet needles fly!
Nothing neglect and nothing leave,
Hem them in from skirt to sleeve.
Little they reck of scratch or hurt
Who toil at hemming the Southern shirt;
Little they'll care, as they shout aloud,
If the Southern shirt proves a Southern shroud,
Hurrah for the needles sharp and thin!
Cotton is saved by hemming it in.

Continental Monthly

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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Frank Moore, Ed.

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Frank Moore, Ed.