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THE REASON WHY by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: SAID LAZY SAMMY, 'DON'T YOU KNOW'
Last Line: "I'D TARRY HALF THE DAY IN BED!"
Subject(s): IDLENESS; LAZINESS; SLOTH; INDOLENCE;

Said lazy Sammy, "Don't you know,
When grown-up men a-calling go
They wait till folks are up and dressed,
House swept and dusted, and the rest?
Now I should think it quite ill-bred,
Soon as the sun is out of bed
To call upon his world, before
The sun has time to do a chore,
Or set his house to rights at all
In preparation for a call.
Before I'd be so rude," Sam said,
"I'd tarry half the day in bed!"



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