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Had a hare-lip -- Joney had: / Spiled his looks, and Joney knowed it: / Fellers tried to bore him, bad -- / But ef ever he got mad, / He kep' still and never showed it. / 'Druther have his mouth all pouted / And split up, and like it wuz, / Than the ones 'at laughed about it.
Purty is as purty does!