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Pore-folks lives at Lonesomeville- / Lawzy! but they're pore! / Houses with no winders in, / And hardly any door: / Chimbly all tore down, and no / Smoke in that at all- / Ist a stovepipe through a hole / In the kitchen-wall!
Pump 'at's got no handle on; / And no woodshed-And, _wooh! _- / Mighty cold there, choppin' wood, / Like pore-folks has to do! - / Winter-time, and snow and sleet / Ist fairly fit to kill! - / Hope to goodness _Santy Claus_ / Goes to Lonesomeville!