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The Best Times

by James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley

_When Old Folks they wuz young like us_
_An' little as you an' me_,--
_Them wuz the best times ever wuz_
_Er ever goin' to be_!




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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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