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A Beetle Once Sat on a Barberry Twig
A beetle once sat on a barberry twig,
And turned at the

crank of a thingum-a-jig.
Needles for hornets, nippers for

ants,
For the bumblebee baby a new pair of pants,
For the

grizzled old gopher a hat and a wig,
The beetle ground out

of his thingum-a-jig.