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And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The tollmen thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

And now the turnpike gates again flew open in short space; The tollmen thinking, as before, that Gilpin rode a race.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn