<h3>CHILDISH RIME.</h3>
<p>In a copybook, at the age of nine or ten:</p>
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Abraham Lincoln,<br/>
his hand and pen.<br/>
he will be good, but<br/>
god knows when.</p>
<p>The small "g" led a public speaker to denounce the sort of men--"sordid
and ignorant"--who write "God with a small g and gold with a big one."
This was a scrapbook in humble imitation of the albums in the East.</p>
<p>Another copybook motto. (A year or so later.)</p>
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Good boys who to their books apply<br/>
Will all be great men by and by.
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