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O, we have had a sad mishap! / As Clara lay in Nurse's lap, / Too near the fire the chair did stand -- / A coal flew out and burnt her hand.
It must have flown above the guard, / It came so quick and hit so hard; / And, would you think it? raised a blister. / O, how she cried! poor little sister!