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The Invisible Playmate

W. V. her Book & In Memory of W. V.: By William Canton
  

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On a summer morning, Babsie up a tree
In came a Blackbird, sat on Babsie's knee.
Babsie to Blackbird—“Blackbird, how you do?”
Blackbird to Babsie—“Babsie, how was you?
“How was you in this commodious tree—
“How was you and all your famu—ilu—ee?”