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If you wanted a boy to polish your shoes,
Which of these two, do you think, you would choose?
They were once "Street Arabs," hungry, ill-clad, / And in very sore danger of going to the bad; / But now! -- one might think that their fortunes were made, / They're so proud to belong to the Shoeblack Brigade.