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1849–1917

THE JACK-O-MY-GOBLIN

Ruth McEnery Stuart

A terrible creature of Ink-bottle Land, A Jack-o-my-goblin is he. The sea-urchins made him to place on the sand, And frighten the monsters that dwell on the land.

They took a sea-pumpkin and carved it by hand, And lighted it up in their glee With a phosphorus fish from the sea; Now all the day long on the shore doth he stand,

While Land-loodles terrified flee, Oh, yes, The terrified Land-loodles flee.

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