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THE GREEDY BOY by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)

First Line: SAMMY SMITH WOULD DRINK AND EAT
Last Line: WAS OFTEN GREEDY SAM.
Subject(s): BOYS; GREED; AVARICE; CUPIDITY;

SAMMY SMITH would drink and eat
From morning until night;
He filled his mouth so full of meat,
It was a shameful sight.

Sometimes he gave a book or toy
For apple, cake, or plum;
And grudged if any other boy
Should taste a single crumb.

Indeed he ate and drank so fast,
And used to stuff and cram,
The name they call'd him by at last
Was often Greedy Sam.



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