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COMMINATION by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: TAKING MY WALK THE OTHER DAY
Last Line: AND I TOO HAD A MIND TO LET HER.
Subject(s): ANGER; GIRLS; KISSES;
TAKING my walk the other day,
I saw a little girl at play,
So pretty, 'twould not be amiss,
Thought I, to venture on a kiss.
Fiercely the little girl began—
"I wonder at you, nasty man!"
And all four fingers were applied,
And crimson pinafore beside,
To wipe what venom might remain;—
"Do if you dare the like again;
I have a mind to teach you better,"
And I too had a mind to let her.



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