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The following lines were written at the request of a little girl, who said she would recite them at a Sunday School entertainment. Prof. J. S. Blackie of Edinburgh, in a letter acknowledging the receipt of my book, said he considered this piece worthy of being committed to memory in the public schools. Sir Daniel Wilson of Toronto University also approves of them as containing good sentiments and should be impressed on the minds of the young.
Dressing in fashion will be called vain, / And they'll call you a dowdy if you are plain, / But do what is right, let that be the test, / Then proudly hold up your head with the best.