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Title: Slovenly Betsy

Author: Heinrich Hoffman

Release Date: November 24, 2006 [eBook #19915]
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Language: English

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SLOVENLY BETSY

by

DR. HENRY HOFFMAN

With Numerous Illustrations
in Color from the
Original Designs by
Walter Hayn

[Illustration]

Applewood Books
Bedford, Massachusetts
This edition of Slovenly Betsy was originally published in 1911.

SLOVENLY BETSY

Betsy would never wash herself
When from her bed she rose,
But just as quickly as she could
She hurried on her clothes.
To keep her clothes all nice and clean
Miss Betsy took no pains;
In holes her stockings always were,
Her dresses filled with stains.
Sometimes she went day after day
And never combed her hair,
While little feathers from her bed
Stuck on it here and there.
The schoolboys, when they Betsy saw,
Would point her out, and cry,
"Oh! Betsy, what a sight you are!
Oh! Slovenly Betsy, fie!"

One rainy day her parents went
Some pleasant friends to meet.
They took Betsy along with them,
All dressed so clean and neat.
Nice little boys and girls were there,
With whom our Betsy played,
Until of playing she grew tired,
And to the garden strayed.
Out in the rain she danced awhile,
But 'twas not long before
Flat down she tumbled in the mud,
And her best clothes she tore.

[Illustration]

Oh! what a sight she was, indeed,