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First the teacher called the roll, / Clos't to the beginnin', / "Addeliney Bowersox!"
Set the school a-grinnin'.
Wintertime, and stingin'-cold / When the session took up -- / Cold as _we_ all looked at _her_, / Though _she_ couldn't look up!
Total stranger to us, too -- / Country-folks ain't allus / Nigh so shameful unpolite / As some people call us! -- / But the honest facts is, _then_, / Addeliney Bower- / Sox's feelin's was so hurt / She cried half an hour!
My dest was acrost from her 'n: / Set and watched her tryin' / To p'tend she didn't keer, / And a kind o' dryin' / Up her tears with smiles -- -tel I / Thought, "Well, '_Addeliney / Bowersox_' is plain, but _she's_ / Purty as a piney!"
It's be'n many of a year / Sence that most oncommon / Cur'ous name o' _Bowersox_ / Struck me so abomin- / Nubble and outlandish-like! -- / I changed it to Adde- / Liney _Daubenspeck_ -- and _that_ / Nearly killed her Daddy!