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"Mamma, why mayn't I, when we dine, / Eat ham and goose, and drink white wine? / And pray, why may not I, like you, / Have soup and fish, and mutton too?"
"Because, my dear, it is not right / To spoil a youthful appetite; / By things unwholesome, though enjoy'd, / The infant appetite is cloy'd.