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BY ANY OTHER NAME
First the teacher called the roll,
Clos't to the beginnin',
“Addeliney Bowersox!”
Set the school a-grinnin'.
Winter-time, and stingin' cold
When the session took up—
Cold as we all looked at her,
Though she couldn't look up!
Clos't to the beginnin',
“Addeliney Bowersox!”
Set the school a-grinnin'.
Winter-time, and stingin' cold
When the session took up—
Cold as we all looked at her,
Though she couldn't look up!
Total stranger to us, too—
Country folks ain't allus
Nigh so shameful unpolite
As some people call us!—
But the honest facts is, then,
Addeliney Bower-
Sox's feelin's was so hurt
She cried half an hour!
Country folks ain't allus
Nigh so shameful unpolite
As some people call us!—
But the honest facts is, then,
Addeliney Bower-
Sox's feelin's was so hurt
She cried half an hour!
My dest was acrost from hern:
Set and watched her tryin'
To p'tend she didn't keer,
And a kind o' dryin'
Up her tears with smiles—tel I
Thought, “Well, ‘Addeliney
Bowersox’ is plain, but she's
Purty as a piney!”
Set and watched her tryin'
To p'tend she didn't keer,
And a kind o' dryin'
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Thought, “Well, ‘Addeliney
Bowersox’ is plain, but she's
Purty as a piney!”
It's be'n many of a year
Sence that most oncommon
Cur'ous name o' Bowersox
Struck me so abomin-
Nubble and outlandish-like!—
I changed it to Adde-
Liney Daubenspeck—and that
Nearly killed her Daddy!
Sence that most oncommon
Cur'ous name o' Bowersox
Struck me so abomin-
Nubble and outlandish-like!—
I changed it to Adde-
Liney Daubenspeck—and that
Nearly killed her Daddy!
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