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The verses in this little book make no preten sions to literary merit. If they are amusing and timely, they serve their end. A large number of newspaper rhymes, below the average maintained by these selections, have been read and discarded. The amount of more or less meritorious verse inspired by this everywhere-popular pastime, is very extensive. If anything of real excellence has been overlooked, no one can regret the fact more than the compiler.
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