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Four O'clock.

illustration [Description: Image of the poem, decorated with the following ornaments: ornate top border of plant material; dropped ornamental cap of the letter B; a small ornament of an animal; simple bottom border of curving lines; the words "Warm and Dusty" printed on the left side of the page. ]

Four O'clock.

Bare-necked Gretchen combs her hair
At the Looking-Glass.
This is Grease, and these are Beads
She takes to early Mass.
Her Water-Pitcher, blue and white,
Has got a broken Nose,
And both the Stockings that she wears
Are ravelled at the Toes.
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