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Once a little sugar ant made up his mind to roam -- / To fare away far away, far away from home.
He had eaten all his breakfast, and he had his ma's consent / To see what he should chance to see and here's the way he went -- / Up and down a fern frond, round and round a stone, / Down a gloomy gully where he loathed to be alone, / Up a mighty mountain range, seven inches high, / Through the fearful forest grass that nearly hid the sky, / Out along a bracken bridge, bending in the moss, / Till he reached a dreadful desert that was feet and feet across. / 'Twas a dry, deserted desert, and a trackless land to tread, / He wished that he was home again and tucked-up tight in bed.