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An’ she says “Goodness sakes alive!

Was ever such another child?”

An’ she says: “Do run out an’ play!”

An’ thist when I git started, nen

She hollers right at me this way:

“Willyum! You march right in again!”

An’ ’en I git a spankin’!

An’ Pa, he don’t come home to lunch

’Cuz Ma, she says he’s too ashamed

To face her after such a scene

An’ says she surely can’t be blamed

For Pa’s mean, ugly, hateful ways,

An’ Ma ain’t got no heart to eat,

Nen, thist ’cuz I want honey on

My bread, er jam, er sumpin sweet—

Why nen I git a spankin’!

An’ ’en, along ’bout supper time

Pa sneaks in thist th’ easiest

You ever see; an’ nen he looks

For Ma; an’ she’s th’ freeziest

’At ever was. An’ Pa, he’s got

Some candy an’ he says he’s ’shamed,

An’ fin’ly Ma says mebbe she

Was also partly to be blamed,

An’ ’en ’at ends my spankin’!

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THE Adams’s children, they just romp and play

And fall out of trees in the carelessest way,

And might break their legs from the way that they fall,