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Home from the shop came Maud's new hat-- / A hat of monstrous size! / It almost filled the tiny flat / Before her ravished eyes.
When, sch-u-u! up through the box so proud / The rocket flared and spluttered. / "I said that hat was all too loud!" / Her peevish husband muttered.