The Elephant

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Title:     The Elephant
Author: Thomas W. Talley [More Titles by Talley]

My mammy gimme fifteen cents
Fer to see dat elephan' jump de fence.
He jump so high, I didn' see why,
If she gimme a dollar he mought not cry.

So I axed my mammy to gimme a dollar,
Fer to go an' hear de elephan' holler.
He holler so loud, he skeered de crowd.

Nex' he jump so high, he tetch de sky;
An' he won't git back 'fore de fo'th o' July.

[The end]
Thomas W. Talley's poem: Elephant

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