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Once Upon a Time, and Other Child-Verses

A SILLY BOY.

Reading edition

O, A little boy sailed in a sugar-bowl,

with silver spoons for oars,

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Original

And his hold was full of sugar, the French-

man's tea to sweeten;

But when he safely moored his craft beside

those foreign shores—

Alas, that silly little boy, his cargo he had

eaten!

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