From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) wrote in   
   news:bM2dneJ_p90KSuP0nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>>>> The Poor Boy's Christmas   
   >>>>> by Ellis Parker Butler   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Observe, my child, this pretty scene,   
   >>>>> And note the air of pleasure keen   
   >>>>> With which the widow's orphan boy   
   >>>>> Toots his tin horn, his only toy.   
   >>>>> What need of costly gifts has he?   
   >>>>> The widow has nowhere to flee.   
   >>>>> And ample noise his horn emits   
   >>>>> To drive the widow into fits.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> MORAL:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The philosophic mind can see   
   >>>>> The uses of adversity.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> George   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> GJD posted this poem two days ago, on Thursday.   
   >>>   
   >>> HTH and HAND.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >> Father Dunce must be at work, since little Dunces should be seen only   
   >> when doing chores, and not heard.   
      
   >> I see that Little Boy George is only able to get part of one butt   
   >> cheek on the chair.   
      
   >> He must have gotten a good whipping the night before. [/quote]   
   >   
   > Childish name-calling noted and troll content removed.   
      
   Restored!   
      
   What a childish little crybaby you are!   
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
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