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The book of joyous children (1902)

Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, Vawter, Will, 1871-1941 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 180

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[ 1^^ ] A GUSTATOKY ACHIEVEMENT Had—ist like she alluz does—Most an best pies ever wuz. Canned &Zac7i;burry-pie an goose-Burry, squshin-fuU o juice 5An ro0burry—yes, an plum—YeS; an churry-jtie—um-yum ! Peach an punkin, too, you bet.Lawzy ! I kin taste em yet!Yes, an custard-j^ie, an mince!… … 167 ] CLIMATIC SORCERY When frosts all on our winder, an the snow sAll out-o-doors, our ^Old-Kriss -milkman goesA-drivin round, ist i)urt-nigli froze to death.With his old white mustache froze full o breath. But when its summer an all warm agin,He comes a-whistlin an a-drivin inOur alley, thout no…

Children's poetry, American

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