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| SAID the Raggedy Man on a hot afternoon, | |
| “My! | |
| Sakes! | |
| What a lot o’ mistakes | |
| Some little folks makes on the Man in the Moon! | 5 |
| But people that ’s been up to see him like Me, | |
| And calls on him frequent and intimutly, | |
| Might drop a few hints that would interest you | |
| Clean! | |
| Through! | 10 |
| If you wanted ’em to— | |
| Some actual facts that might interest you! | |
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| “O the Man in the Moon has a crick in his back; | |
| Whee! | |
| Whimm! | 15 |
| Ain’t you sorry for him? | |
| And a mole on his nose that is purple and black; | |
| And his eyes are so weak that they water and run | |
| If he dares to dream even he looks at the sun,— | |
| So he jes’ dreams of stars, as the doctors advise— | 20 |
| My! | |
| Eyes! | |
| But isn’t he wise— | |
| To jes’ dream of stars, as the doctors advise? | |
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| “And the Man in the Moon has a boil on his ear— | 25 |
| Whee! | |
| Whing! | |
| What a singular thing! | |
| I know! but these facts are authentic, my dear,— | |
| There ’s a boil on his ear; and a corn on his chin,— | 30 |
| He calls it a dimple,—but dimples stick in,— | |
| Yet it might be a dimple turned over, you know! | |
| Whang! | |
| Ho! | |
| Why certainly so!— | 35 |
| It might be a dimple turned over, you know! | |
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| “And the Man in the Moon has a rheumatic knee, | |
| Gee! | |
| Whizz! | |
| What a pity that is! | 40 |
| And his toes have worked round where his heels ought to be. | |
| So whenever he wants to go North he goes South, | |
| And comes back with the porridge crumbs all round his mouth, | |
| And he brushes them off with a Japanese fan, | |
| Whing! | 45 |
| Whann! | |
| What a marvellous man! | |
| What a very remarkably marvellous man! | |
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| “And the Man in the Moon,” sighed the Raggedy Man, | |
| “Gits! | 50 |
| So! | |
| Sullonesome, you know! | |
| Up there by himself since creation began!— | |
| That when I call on him and then come away, | |
| He grabs me and holds me and begs me to stay,— | 55 |
| Till—well, if it was n’t for Jimmy-cum-Jim, | |
| Dadd! | |
| Limb! | |
| I ’d go pardners with him! | |
| Jes’ jump my bob here and be pardners with him!” | 60 |
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