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Taste

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I can't understand why you pass up the toys     That Santa considered just right for small boys;     I can't understand why you turn up your nose     At dogs, hobby-horses, and treasures like those,     And play a whole hour, sometimes longer than that,     With a thing as prosaic as daddy's old hat.     The tables and shelves have been loaded for you     With volumes of pictures - they're pretty ones, too -     Of birds, beasts, and fishes, and old Mother Goose     Repines in a corner and feels like the deuce,     While you, on the floor, quite contentedly look     At page after page of the telephone book.

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