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Send me off wiz biddy
Ev’ry single d a y ;
“ Be a good boy, Charlie,
Rim away and play.”

Dot all my nice kisses,
Dot my place in bed;
Mean to take my drumstick
And beat him on ze head.

THE TRUE STORY OP LITTLE BOY BLUE.

L IT T L K Boy Blue, as the story goes,
One morning in summer fell fast asleep,
When he should have been, as every one knows.
Watching the cows and sheep.

Now all of you will remember what
Came of the nap on that summer mom;
I low the sheep got into the meadow-lot,
And the cows got into the corn.

Neglecting a duty is wrong, of course,
But I've always felt, if we could but know,
That the matter was made a grent deal worse
Than it should have been; and so

I find, in my sifting, that there was one
Still more to blame than Little Boy Blue.
I am anxious to have full justice done,
And so, I know, are you.

, The one to blame I have found to be
(i'm sorry to say it) little Bo-Peep;