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1866–1951

CLEANLINESS

Gelett Burgess

The Goops they are spotted on chin and on cheek, You could dig the dirt off with a trowel! But you wash your face twenty times every week, And you do n't do it all with the towel!

The Goops are all dirty, and what do they do? They like to be dirty, and stay so. But if you were dirty, you'd wash, would n't you? If you needed a bath, you would say so!

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