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Once Upon a Time and Other Child-Verses

by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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A Pretty Ambition

The mackerel-man drives down the street,

With mackerel to sell,

A-calling out with lusty shout:

“Ha-il, Mack-e-rel!”

When I’m a man I mean to drive

A wagon full of posies,

And sing so sweet to all I meet:

“Hail, Hyacinths and Roses!”

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