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A Very Youthful Affair

by James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley

I'm bin a-visitun 'bout a week
To my little Cousin's at Nameless Creek,
An' I'm got the hives an' a new straw hat,
An' I'm come back home where my beau lives at.




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