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Show Just Folks (y Edejar A. Guest THE DIFFERENCE A lovely doll I chanced to see. It cost me quite a pretty sum. How proud and happy ahe will be Thought I. when home with that I come. Of real silk the dress was made. Of tinted wax the cheeks and arms, Not many children could parade A doll with such a wealth of charms. But this I noticed, by and by. That alwaya when she went to bed Upon her pillow close to lie She chose the old rag doll instead. in-stead. She kept the fancy doll for show, Aloof it stayed from all the rest Even the neighbors came to know She loved her ragged Susan best And looking back I now recall That in her childish way she tried To teach us grown ups,'ons and all. The difference 'twixt love and pride. |