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Good Santa Claus was overjoyed is dear old friend to see,And treated her to cake and nuts from off a Christmas tree.Just what was said on either side I can’t exactly tell, As nobody was near enough to heat it very well.
But this I’ve learned: old Santa Claus that very Christmas tookThat poor, benighted little child a most enchanting book,And now she knows old Mother Goose—her children great and small,And, as good little folks should do, she dearly loves them all!

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