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Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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THE POPULAR SONG,
"The washwoman sings it all wrong."

MATILDY'S BEAU,
"I recollect I spent an hour a-tyin' my cravat."

MY OLD GRAY NAG,
"He ain't the sort that the big-bugs sport"

MAY MEMORIES,
"Oh, the lazy days of boyhood, when the
world was fair and new!"

NINETY-EIGHT IN THE SHADE,
"Collar kerflummoxed all over my neck."

NOVEMBER'S COME,
"Hey, you swelled-up turkey feller!"

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER,
"The Grasshopper wore his summer clothes,
And stood there kicking his frozen toes."

THE LIGHT-KEEPER,
"It seems ter me that's all there is:
jest do your duty right."

"THE REG'LAR ARMY MAN,"
"They ain't no tears shed over him
When he goes off ter war."
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