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Haw! / Ai've just obteened a pension for mai Paw. / And you should hev seen the people that were theah. / Re-ally, it was surpraising! / Maind, Ai am not criticaising, / But it was embarrassing, Ai do decleah. / Ai met the Snobson-Smythes and Toady-Browns, and many moah / Belonging to ouah set; and wondahed what they came theah foah.
And, of course, Ai didn't say a word of Paw. / Ai rather think they've nevah heard of Paw. / But Ai thought it well to mention / That Ai came to get the pension / For an aged person who had worked for Maw. / The Snobson-Smythes said, "Fancy! That is just why we came dahn. " / But Ai've heard they hev a mothah hidden somewheah out of tahn.