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The Buyers.

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To an apple-woman's stall     Once some children nimbly ran;     Longing much to purchase all,     They with joyous haste began     Snatching up the piles there raised,     While with eager eyes they gazed     On the rosy fruit so nice;     But when they found out the price,     Down they threw the whole they'd got,     Just as if they were red hot.     *     *     *     *     *     The man who gratis will his goods supply     Will never find a lack of folks to buy!

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