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SYSTEM by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: EVERY NIGHT MY PRAYERS I SAY
Last Line: OR ELSE HIS DEAR PAPA IS POOR.
Subject(s): PRAYER;
Every night my prayers I say,
And get my dinner every day;
And every day that I've been good,
I get an orange after food.

The child that is not clean and neat,
With lots of toys and things to eat,
He is a naughty child, I'm sure --
Or else his dear papa is poor.



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