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"Company Manners"

by James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley

When Bess gave her Dollies a Tea, said she,--
"It's unpolite, when they's Company,
To say you've drinked _two_ cups, you see,--
But say you've drinked _a couple_ of tea."




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