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APPLE SAUCE! by EDITH GRACE BERKNESS

First Line: JOHN PETER SAID AT SUPPER
Last Line: IF DESSERT'S JUST APPLE SAUCE!
Subject(s): APPLES; DESSERTS; FRUIT;
John Peter said at supper
That he's leaving us real soon:
A beetle swapped him magic
For Granny's pewter spoon!

So when he finds some foxgloves
That slip on nice and neat
And a pair of lady's-slippers
Big enough to fit his feet --

Then mournfully he'll mumble
A magic word, or two:
And WHIFF! we'll see him vanish
Straight up into the blue!

And my! won't we be sorry
It makes us all so cross
That he won't touch his spinach
If dessert's @3just@1 Apple Sauce!



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