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The Boys Candidate

James Whitcomb Riley

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?'_

(C) James Whitcomb Riley
03/27/2017


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