✦ A Poem Served Instead of an Ad ✦
"Cheer up! cheer up! my little man--cheer up!" I kindly said.
"You are a naughty boy to take such things into your head:
If you should jump from off the pier, you'd surely break your legs,
Perhaps your neck--then Bogey'd have you, sure as eggs are eggs!

The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. Carolyn Wells (Public Domain)

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