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Foreword To Bib Ballads

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Dear Parents: - Don't imagine, please,     It's in a boastful spirit     I fashion verses such as these;     That's not the truth or near it.     A hundred or a thousand, yes,     A million kids there may be     Who aren't one iota less     Attractive than this baby.     I'll venture that your household has     As valuable a treasure     As mine, but mine I know, and as     For yours, I've not that pleasure.     And that is why my book's about     Just one, O Dads and Mothers;     But babes are babes, and mine, no doubt,     Is very much like others.

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