<h2>THE WICKED ZEBRA</h2>
<h3>BY FRANK ROE BATCHELDER</h3>
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<span class="i0">The zebra always seems malicious,—<br/></span>
<span class="i2">He kicks and bites 'most all the time;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I fear that he's not only vicious,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">But guilty of some dreadful crime.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">The mere suggestion makes me falter<br/></span>
<span class="i2">In writing of this wicked brute;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Although he has escaped the halter,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">He wears for life a convict's suit.<br/></span></div>
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