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by Frederick Locker Lampson: With introduction and notes by Austin Dobson

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A TERRIBLE INFANT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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A TERRIBLE INFANT

I recollect a nurse call'd Ann,
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day a fine young man
Came up, and kiss'd the pretty lass:
She did not make the least objection!
Thinks I, “Aha!
When I can talk I'll tell Mamma.”
—And that's my earliest recollection.