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I'd like to be a teacher, and have a clever brain, / Calling out, "Attention, please! " and "Must I speak in vain? " / I'd be quite strict with boys and girls whose minds I had to train, / And all the books and maps and things I'd carefully explain; / I'd make then learn the dates of kings, and all the capes of Spain; / But I wouldn't be a teacher if . . .
I couldn't use the cane.