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MY NEIGHBORS CALL.

I DON'T want to compel you
To let your baking go,
But I came in to tell you
Some things you ought to know

Tt won’t take long; no doubt you
Will think it can't be so,
But folks ali talk about you!
[Ve come to let yon know.

Now there's your next door neighbor—--
Don't .‘jay I told you, though !
She .says its no great labor
To find out all you know !

You see you’re too confiding ;
You don't know friend from foe.
I'll set you right, providing
You think you ought to know

You've heard of Mrs. Grundy?
She thinks it looks quite low
For you to drive out Sunday.
I'm sure you ought to know :

Your class don't like their teacher.
T knew it long ago!
They all prefer Miss Preacher—
Thought you might like to know.

You must change your dressmaker r
You make a sorry show
Primmed up like some old Quaker!
I s'pose you didn’t know.