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Impertinent Poems
By
Edmund Vance Cooke
Author of
"Chronicles of the Little Tot"
"Told to the Little Tot"
"Rimes to Be Read"
Etc.
With Illustrations by
Gordon Ross
Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
And whether he's slow, or spry,
It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts
But only—how did you die?