How the Babes in the Wood
Showed They Couldn't be
Beaten
A man of kind and noble mind
Was H. Gustavus Hyde.
'T would be amiss to add to this
At present, for he died,
In full possession of his senses,
The day before my tale commences.
One half his gold his four-year-old
Son Paul was known to win,
And Beatrix, whose age was six,
For all the rest came in,
Perceiving which, their Uncle Ben did
A thing that people said was splendid.
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