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Riley Child-Rhymes

by James Whitcomb Riley

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The Boys’ Candidate

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Las’ time ‘at Uncle Sidney come,
He bringed a watermelon home—
      An’ half the boys in town,
Come taggin’ after him.—An’ he
Says, when we et it,—“Gracious me!
      ‘S the boy-house fell down?”

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