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REASONS UNPARDONABLE.

“Have you been fighting my Willie?
Look at the blood on your nose,
Why did you fight your friend Georgie,
Tearing and soiling his clothes?
“I'd be ashamed of such fighting;
Bad boys alone act that way;
If you can't keep from that jangling,
Right in this yard you must stay.”
“Please, won't you listen dear mamma,
What do you 'spose that George said?
He said his ma was the bestus,
An' could beat you making bread,”