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TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AND PERHAPS GELETT BURGESS by BERTON BRALEY

First Line: ANN WAS A PLEASANT LITTLE GIRL
Last Line: AND ACT LIKE ANY VULGAR GOOP.
Subject(s): BURGESS, GELETT (1866-1951); CHILDREN; GIRLS; CHILDHOOD;
Ann was a pleasant little girl
And on her forehead grew a curl
And she behaved exceeding well;
But now and then she'd get a spell
And stamp her feet and cry and whoop
And act like any vulgar Goop.



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