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 And he turned up his nose at his excellent pap—
 * "My friends, it's a tap
 * That is not worth a rap"

(Now this was remarkably excellent pap.)

He'd chuck his nurse under the chin, and he'd say,
 * With his "Fal, lal, lal"—
 * "You doosed fine gal!"

This shocking precocity drove 'em away:
 * "A month from to-day
 * Is as long as I'll stay—

Then I'd wish, if you please, for to hook it away."

His father, a simple old gentleman, he
 * With nursery rhyme
 * And "Once on a time,"

Would tell him the story of "Little Bo P,"
 * "So pretty was she,
 * So pretty and wee,

As pretty, as pretty, as pretty could be."

But the babe, with a dig that would startle an ox,
 * With his "C'ck! Oh, my!—
 * Go along wiz 'oo, fie!"