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How’d You Like It?

by Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler

Well, then! How’d you like to bear the name of Butler
As an honor badge eight centuries at least,
And then have the Prohibitionists inform you
That a butler is a sort of outlawed beast?




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