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"I'm yet _nine_!"
Growls "Lud'rick" Stein.

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"Hi! here's _ten_!"
Whoops Catfish Ben.

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"And now we march, in daring line,
For the banks of Brandywine!"

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4

"IT"


A wee little worm in a hickory-nut
Sang, happy as he could be,--

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