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"For all the babies, and kittens, and birds, that come

In the course of a year! It does make me laugh

To look at them all, by the side of a calf!

"Why, my little Brindle as soon as 'twas born

Stood up on its legs, and sniffed at the corn;

Before it had been in the world an hour

It began to gambol, and canter, and scour

All over the fields. See its great shining eyes,

And its comely red hair that so glossy lies