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party stept

Into the tent where freaks where kept.
[Illustration: "_Gravely passed from tent to tent_"]
[Illustration: "_And threw her arms round little Ann_"]
"Look at that child," said one, "I'm sure
Her spots are paint and
nothing more."
Cried Ann: "I do not care a fig
For looking at that
spotted pig!"
But at her voice, Jane shrieked and ran,
And threw her
arms round little Ann.
"Save me! oh, save me!" she did plead;
"I'm
not a spotted pig, indeed!"
While her Mama screamed out, "You're
not
My Jane!"--and fainted on the spot.
And her Papa desired to
know
Who was the master of the show?
But he, as afterwards
transpired,
Had very modestly retired.
Then everyone had much ado

To bring Jane's fainting mother to:
At last she sat up with a start,

And pressed her darling to her heart.
"My Jane!" she cried, "my Jane!!
my Jane!!!"
And seemed inclined to faint again.
[Illustration: "_Fainted on the spot_"]
[Illustration]
When Jane regained her native hearth
She had a very thorough bath:

But tho' she used all soaps then known,
And soda too, and
pumice-stone,
She sadly saw she still had got
More than one
noticeable spot!
And so poor Miss Jemima Jane
Tho' still more
good, is still more plain.
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