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When Dicky was sick / In the night, and the clock, / As he listened, said "Tick- / Atty -- tick-atty -- tock!"
He said that _it_ said, / Every time it said "Tick,"
It said "Sick," instead, / And he _heard_ it say "Sick!"
And when it said "Tick- / Atty -- tick-atty -- tock,"
He said it said "Sick- / Atty -- sick-atty -- sock!"
And he tried to _see_ then, / But the light was too dim, / Yet he _heard_ it again -- / And't was _talking_ to him!
And then it said "Sick- / Atty -- sick-atty -- sick / You poor little Dick- / Atty -- Dick-atty -- dock!
Have you got the hick- / Atties? Hi! send for Doc / To hurry up quick / Atty -- quick-atty -- quock, / And heat a hot brick- / Atty -- brick-atty -- brock,
And rikle-ty wrap it / And clickle-ty clap it / Against his cold feet- / Al-ty -- weep-aty -- eepaty -- / _There_ he goes, slapit- / Ty -- slippaty -- sleepaty! "