A RATHER STICKY EXPERIENCE
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One day, within a grove of spruce,
They gathered gum to chew,
But, oh! it was so sticky that
It acted quite like glue!
They could not separate their teeth,
However hard they tried,
Till with a tooth-brush, smartly used,
Some Borax they applied.
So on a board they wrote a sign,
And tacked it to a tree,
Right in the middle of the grove
Where everyone could see.
It said: “There’s nothing quite so good
With which to brush the teeth,
As 20-Mule-Team-Borax. Yours,”
And signed their names beneath.
“One day, within a grove of spruce, they gathered gum to chew.”