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When Autumn brings around the day / Devoted to thanksgiving, / The children scream with laughter gay / For very joy of living.
And every sort of escapade / Receives their commendation; / But all agree a masquerade / Is best for celebration.
The boys and girls all swarm around / The crowd is hourly growing; / Straw hatted and grotesquely gowned, -- / With tin horns loudly blowing.
But dear old dames with snowy puffs, / Tulle caps and Mechlin laces, / Don't scramble out and join the toughs / In boys' clothes and false faces.