First the teacher called the roll, Clos't to the beginnin', "Addeliney Bowersox!"
Set the school a-grinnin'.
Wintertime, and stingin'-cold When the session took up -- Cold as _we_ all looked at _her_, Though _she_ couldn't look up!
Total stranger to us, too -- Country-folks ain't allus Nigh so shameful unpolite As some people call us! -- But the honest facts is, _then_, Addeliney Bower- Sox's feelin's was so hurt She cried half an hour!
My dest was acrost from her 'n: Set and watched her tryin' To p'tend she didn't keer, And a kind o' dryin' Up her tears with smiles -- -tel I Thought, "Well, '_Addeliney Bowersox_' is plain, but _she's_ Purty as a piney!"
It's be'n many of a year Sence that most oncommon Cur'ous name o' _Bowersox_ Struck me so abomin- Nubble and outlandish-like! -- I changed it to Adde- Liney _Daubenspeck_ -- and _that_ Nearly killed her Daddy!
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