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THE PAMPERED LAPDOG

AND

THE MISGUIDED ASS


A woolly little terrier pup
Gave vent to yelps distressing,
Whereat his mistress took him up
And soothed him with caressing,
  And yet he was not in the least
  What one would call a handsome beast.

He might have been a Javanese,
He might have been a Jap dog,
And also neither one of these,
But just a common lapdog,
  The kind that people send, you know,
  Done up in cotton, to the Show.

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