"An’ the Gobble-uns ’ll git you  Ef you   Don’t    Watch     Out!"
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"Little Orphant Annie', p. 112.
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James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana, October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet" and the "Children's Poets," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal.
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