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The day after Christmas young Albert	A
Were what's called confined to his bed	B
With a tight kind of pain in his stummick	C
And a light feeling up in his head	B
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His parents were all in a fluster	D
When they saw little lad were so sick	C
They said 'Put out your tongue ' When they'd seen it	E
They said 'Put it back again quick '	-
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Ma made him a basin of gruel	F
But that were a move for the worse	G
Though the little lad tried hard to eat it	E
At the finish he did the reverse	G
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The pain showed no signs of abating	C
So at last they got Doctor to call	H
He said it were in the ab domain	I
And not in the stummick at all	H
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He sent up a bottle of physick	C
With instructions on t' label to say	J
'To be taken in a recumbent posture	D
One teaspoon three times a day '	-
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As Ma stood there reading the label	K
Pa started to fidget about	L
He said 'Get a teaspoon and dose him	M
Before he gets better without '	-
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'I can manage the teaspoon' said Mother	D
A look of distress on her face	N
'It's this 'ere recumbent posture	D
I haven't got one in the place '	-
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Said Pa 'What about Mrs Lupton	O
Next door 'ere you'd better ask her	D
A woman who's buried three husbands	P
Is sure to have one of them there '	-
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So they went round and asked Mrs Lupton	O
'Aye I know what you mean ' she replied	Q
'I 'ad one on order for 'Orace	P
But poor dear got impatient and died '	-
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She said 'You'd best try the Co Op shop	R
They'll have one in stock I dare say	P
' Fact I think I saw one in the winder	D
Last time I was passing that way '	-
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So round they went to the Co Op shop	R
And at the counter for household supplies	P
Pa asked for a recumbent posture	D
And the shopman said 'Yes sir what size '	-
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Said Ma 'It's for our little Albert	A
I don't know what size he would use	P
I know he takes thirteen in collars	P
And sixes four fittings in shoes '	-
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'If it's little lads size as you're wanting '	-
Said the shopman 'I'm sorry to say	P
We nobbut had one in the building	C
And that one were sold yesterday '	-
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He sent them across to a tin smith	S
Who said 'I know what you've in mind	T
If you'll draw me a pattern I'll make one '	-
But Pa'd left his pencil behind	T
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They tried every shop they could think of	U
They walked for two hours by the clock	C
And though most places reckoned to keep them	V
They'd none of them got one in stock	C
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The last place they tried was the chemist	W
He looked at them both with a frown	X
And told them a recumbent posture	D
Were Latin and meant lying down	X
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It means 'Lying down' put in Latin	O
Said Father 'That's just what I thowt '	-
Then he picked up a side glance from Mother	D
And pretended he hadn't said nowt	W
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'They're not dosing my lad with Latin '	-
Said Mother her face looking grim	M
'Just plain Castor Oil's all he's getting	C
And I'm leaving the posture to him '	-

Marriott Edgar

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