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THE KING OF OO-RINKTUM-JING by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: DAINTY BABY AUSTIN
Last Line: AND THE WHALE HE RODE ACROST ON?
Subject(s): BOSTON;
DAINTY Baby Austin!
Your Daddy's gone to Boston
To see the King
Of Oo-Rinktum-Jing
And the whale he rode acrost on!

Boston Town's a city:
But O it's such a pity! --
They'll greet the King
Of Oo-Rinktum-Jing
With never a nursery ditty!

But me and you and Mother
Can stay with Baby-brother,
And sing of the King
Of Oo-Rinktum-Jing
And laugh at one another!

So what cares Baby Austin
If Daddy @3has@1 gone to Boston
To see the King
Of Oo-Rinktum-Jing
And the whale he rode acrost on?



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