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To Mystery Land.

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Oh, dear, how will it end?     Peggy and Susie how naughty you are.     You little know where you are,     Going so far, and so high,     Nearly up to the sky.     Perhaps it's a Giant who lives there,     And perhaps it's a lovely Princess.     But you very well know     You've no business to go;     You'll get yourselves into a mess.     Oh, dear, I'm sure it is true;     Whatever on earth can it matter to you?     For you know it--oh, fie--     That it's naughty to pry     Into other's affairs--     Into other folks houses to go,     Where you know     You're not asked.     So you'd better come back     While there's time, it is plain.     Go home--and be never     So naughty again.

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