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    Any of you with children have heard this revived recenty
    For those who don't, I'd like to share my favorite part
    The last verse

    Out of : The bad children book of beasts
    Written by Hilaire Balloc
    Published, 1896

    No animal will more repay
    A treatment kind and fair
    Atleast so lonely people say
    Who keep a frog
    And by the way
    They are extremely rare
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    Very true! Thanks for sharing.
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    Thanks, what I thaught was interesting was the year it was written, 1896--
    Gingerlee
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    0.0.3 Phyllobates bicolor
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    1.0.0 blue cobalt terrantula

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