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Ah, truly, as the tree is bent the tiny twig's inclined, / And in the very littlest girls we see / The contradictious tendencies of woman's wayward mind / Developed to a marvellous degree. / For each small daughter of her mother / Will say one thing and do the other.
For instance, when some little girls just hate to go to school / And beg that they may stay at home and play; / And then, permission given, these same children, as a rule, / Delight in _playing school_ the livelong day! / Ah, no wonder poets feature / Woman as a captious creature.