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Of all the dreaded bugs and germs

That in this earth abound,

No bugs in greater number

Have ever yet been found,

Nor looked upon with terror more

By big folks and by small

Than GROUCH-BUGS, which are awful pests.

That come to one and all.

They make us, oh, so cranky

That we would like to yell,

And hunt up all the meanest things

About our friends to tell.

When other folks are smiling

The GROUCH-BUG'S victim cries,

While other folks are dancing

The GROUCH-SICK heave big sighs.

A great and noted doctor says

The GROUCH-BUG is but found

Within the torrid climate

Where heat waves will abound,

And that the bug will never live

In woman, boy or child,

But always seeks a man's stout frame

And makes him cross and wild.

But though I'm young, I truly think

That this is not quite true,

For well I know some little girls,

And boys and ladies, too,

Who have the awful GROUCHES

And get quite fiercely mad

So that they act like demons

Who never can be glad.

My daddy says the only cure

Which he would always use

For folks who get the GROUCHES

And other folks abuse,

Would be to give a ducking

With water freezing cold

So that they'd be so chilly

They couldn't even scold.

But for the kiddies of my age

Who let this bad bug in,

He recommends the touching

Of peach limb to bare skin.