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Little Willie from his mirror
Licked the mercury right off.
Thinking, in his childish error,
It would cure the whooping cough.
At the funeral his mother
Smartly said to Mrs. Brown:
‘Twas a chilly day for Willie
When the mercury went down. From The Best of Gravestone Humor, by Louis S. Schafer, New York: Sterling Publishing, 1990, pg. 18
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