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I'm thist a little cripple boy, an' never goin' to grow / An' get a great big man at all! -- 'cause Aunty told me so.
When I was thist a baby onc't, I falled out of the bed / An' got "The Curv'ture of the Spine" -- 'at's what the Doctor said.