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Once Upon a Time and Other Child-Verses

by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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A Silly Boy

O, A little boy sailed in a sugar-bowl, with silver spoons for oars,

And his hold was full of sugar, the French-

man’s tea to sweeten;

But when he safely moored his craft beside those foreign shores—

Alas, that silly little boy, his cargo he had eaten!

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