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Now lithe and listen gentles all	A
Now lithe ye all and hark	B
Unto a ballad I shall sing	C
About Buena Park	B
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Of all the wonders happening there	D
The strangest hap befell	E
Upon a famous Aprile morn	F
As I you now shall tell	E
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It is about the Taylor pup	G
And of his mistress eke	H
And of the prankish time they had	I
That I am fain to speak	H
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FITTE THE FIRST	J
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The pup was of as noble mien	K
As e'er you gazed upon	L
They called his mother Lady	M
And his father was a Don	L
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And both his mother and his sire	N
Were of the race Bernard	O
The family famed in histories	P
And hymned of every bard	O
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His form was of exuberant mold	Q
Long slim and loose of joints	R
There never yet was pointer dog	S
So full as he of points	R
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His hair was like to yellow fleece	T
His eyes were black and kind	U
And like a nodding gilded plume	V
His tail stuck up behind	U
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His bark was very very fierce	W
And fierce his appetite	X
Yet was it only things to eat	Y
That he was prone to bite	X
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But in that one particular	N
He was so passing true	Z
That never did he quit a meal	A2
Until he had got through	Z
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Potatoes biscuits mush or hash	B2
Joint chop or chicken limb	C2
So long as it was edible	D2
'T was all the same to him	C2
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And frequently when Hunger's pangs	E2
Assailed that callow pup	G
He masticated boots and gloves	F2
Or chewed a door mat up	G
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So was he much beholden of	G2
The folk that him did keep	H2
They loved him when he was awake	I2
And better still asleep	H2
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FITTE THE SECOND	J2
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Now once his master lingering o'er	N
His breakfast coffee cup	G
Observed unto his doting spouse	K2
You ought to wash the pup	G
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That shall I do this very day	L2
His doting spouse replied	M2
You will not know the pretty thing	C
When he is washed and dried	M2
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But tell me dear before you go	N2
Unto your daily work	O2
Shall I use Ivory soap on him	C2
Or Colgate Pears' or Kirk	O2
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Odzooks it matters not a whit	P2
They all are good to use	Q2
Take Pearline if it pleases you	Z
Sapolio if you choose	R2
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Take any soap but take the pup	G
And also water take	I2
And mix the three discreetly up	G
Till they a lather make	I2
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Then mixing these constituent parts	S2
Let Nature take her way	L2
With which advice that sapient sir	N
Had nothing more to say	L2
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Then fared he to his daily toil	T2
All in the Board of Trade	U2
While Mistress Taylor for that bath	V2
Due preparation made	U2
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FITTE THE THIRD	W2
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She whistled gayly to the pup	G
And called him by his name	X2
And presently the guileless thing	C
All unsuspecting came	X2
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But when she shut the bath room door	Y2
And caught him as catch can	Z2
And hove him in that odious tub	A3
His sorrows then began	Z2
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How did that callow yallow thing	C
Regret that Aprile morn	F
Alas how bitterly he rued	W2
The day that he was born	F
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Twice and again but all in vain	B3
He lifted up his wail	C3
His voice was all the pup could lift	W2
For thereby hangs this tale	C3
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'Twas by that tail she held him down	D3
And presently she spread	W2
The creamy lather on his back	E3
His stomach and his head	W2
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His ears hung down in sorry wise	F3
His eyes were oh so sad	W2
He looked as though he just had lost	W2
The only friend he had	W2
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And higher yet the water rose	G3
The lather still increased	W2
And sadder still the countenance	H3
Of that poor martyred beast	W2
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Yet all the time his mistress spoke	I3
Such artful words of cheer	J3
As Oh how nice and Oh how clean	K
And There's a patient dear	J3
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At last the trial had an end	W2
At last the pup was free	M
She threw aside the bath room door	Y2
Now get you gone quoth she	M
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FITTE THE FOURTH	K3
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Then from that tub and from that room	V
He gat with vast ado	W2
At every hop he gave a shake	I2
And how the water flew	W2
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He paddled down the winding stairs	L3
And to the parlor hied	W2
Dispensing pools of foamy suds	M3
And slop on every side	W2
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Upon the carpet then he rolled	W2
And brushed against the wall	A
And horror whisked his lathery sides	N3
On overcoat and shawl	A
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Attracted by the dreadful din	O3
His mistress came below	N2
Who who can speak her wonderment	W2
Who who can paint her woe	N2
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Great smears of soap were here and there	D
Her startled vision met	W2
With blobs of lather everywhere	D
And everything was wet	W2
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Then Mrs Taylor gave a shriek	H
Like one about to die	W2
Get out get out and don't you dare	D
Come in till you are dry	W2
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With that she opened wide the door	Y2
And waved the critter through	W2
Out in the circumambient air	D
With grateful yelps he flew	W2
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FITTE THE FIFTH	P3
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He whisked into the dusty street	W2
And to the Waller lot	W2
Where bonnie Annie Evans played	W2
With charming Sissy Knott	W2
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And with those pretty little dears	N3
He mixed himself all up	G
Oh fie upon such boisterous play	L2
Fie fie you naughty pup	G
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Woe woe on Annie's India mull	D2
And Sissy's blue percale	D2
One got that pup's belathered flanks	N3
And one his soapy tail	D2
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Forth to the rescue of those maids	N3
Rushed gallant Willie Clow	D2
His panties they were white and clean	K
Where are those panties now	Q3
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Where is the nicely laundered shirt	W2
That Kendall Evans wore	Y2
And Robbie James' tricot coat	W2
All buttoned up before	Y2
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The leaven which as we are told	W2
Leavens a monstrous lump	R3
Hath far less reaching qualities	N3
Than a wet pup on the jump	R3
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This way and that he swung and swayed	W2
He gambolled far and near	J3
And everywhere he thrust himself	S3
He left a soapy smear	J3
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FITTE THE SIXTH	T3
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That noon a dozen little dears	N3
Were spanked and put to bed	W2
With naught to stay their appetites	N3
But cheerless crusts of bread	W2
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That noon a dozen hired girls	N3
Washed out each gown and shirt	W2
Which that exuberant Taylor pup	G
Had frescoed o'er with dirt	W2
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That whole day long the Aprile sun	U3
Smiled sweetly from above	G2
On clotheslines flaunting to the breeze	N3
The emblems mothers love	G2
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That whole day long the Taylor pup	G
This way and that did hie	V3
Upon his mad erratic course	N3
Intent on getting dry	W2
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That night when Mr Taylor came	X2
His vesper meal to eat	W2
He uttered things my pious pen	W3
Would liefer not repeat	W2
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Yet still that noble Taylor pup	G
Survives to romp and bark	B
And stumble over folks and things	N3
In fair Buena Park	B
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Good sooth I wot he should be called	W2
Buena's favorite son	U3
Who's sired of such a noble sire	N
And dammed by every one	U3