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[Illustration:  Sick Furniture]

SICK FURNITURE

  Sitting on the table,
  Standing on the chairs,
  That’s the way the legs are broken and the cushion tears! 
  How’d you like to pay the bill for varnish and repairs?

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[Illustration:  Borrowed Plumes]

BORROWED PLUMES

  Don’t try on the wraps,
  The bonnets and caps
    Of company coming to call! 
  Admire, if you please,
  But garments like these
    Should always feel safe in the hall!

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[Illustration:  The Goop Picnic]

THE GOOP PICNIC

  They came to the best sort of place for a rest,
    On the grass, with the trees overhead,
  They sat down in a bunch and they opened their lunch,
    And they had a be-autiful spread!

  And when they were done, and they’d had all their fun,
    They proved they were Goops, or were blind;
  For they picked up their wraps and they left all their scraps
    For the next picnic party to find!

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[Illustration:  Book Manners]

BOOK-MANNERS

  If you scribble on your books,
  How disgustable it looks! 
  Here a word, and there a scrawl,
  Silly pictures over all! 
  Take a paper, or a slate,
  If you want to decorate!

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[Illustration:  Poor Mother!]

POOR MOTHER!

  Oh!  Isn’t it shocking! 
  Just look at your stocking! 
    Just look at your brand new boots! 
  Your waist is all torn
  And your trousers are worn—­
    Just look at the holes in your suits!

  Your father is working
  All day, without shirking,
    To pay for the clothes that you wear;
  Your mother is mending
  All day, and attending
    To you, with the kindest of care.

  And so, while you’re playing,
  Think of father, who’s paying,
    And mother, who’s working so hard;
  While you kneel on your knees,
  Or climb up the trees,
    Or make your mud pies in the yard!

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[Illustration:  Cheating]

CHEATING

  I thought I saw a little Goop
    Who didn’t pay his fare;
  I looked again; the passengers
    Were gazing at him, there. 
  “They think that he’s a thief!” I said;
    “I wonder does he care?”

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[Illustration:  Goop!  Goop!  Goop!]

GOOP!  GOOP!  GOOP!

  Goop!  Goop!  Goop! 
    I wish you’d wash your face! 
  Goop!  Goop!  Goop! 
    Your hands are a disgrace! 
  Goop!  Goop!  Goop! 
    Put things back in their place! 
  I wish you were polite,
    Instead of a
  Goop!  Goop!  Goop!

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