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Silver Sammy

How you toddle, sweet and willing,
Hair the colour of a shilling,
Here to Mammy!
Running in your crumpled pinny,
Have you just escaped from Jenny,
Silver Sammy?
Now that budded mouth uncloses,
Asking do I want ‘sum woses,’
‘Do 'oo, Mammy?’
Never mind. I know some letters
That are worries to your betters,
Silver Sammy!