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"It seems to me' said Fluffy, "I'd like a country life.
I'd gladly get away from all the city's din and strife.
I pine for rolling fields of grain, for meadows green and fair,
ror simple farm lire pleasures and pure, fresh country air. '
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2. So Fluffy to the country went to be a dairvmaid:
And though, like all true women, of cows she was afraid,
She learned to stand quite near the bars and see the creatures lie
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In calm content and now and then whisk oft a bothering fly.
3. She bravely overcame her fears and watched them eat and browse,
And finally achieved the feat of "bringing home the cows!"
She strolled across the fields at eve; the Jowing herd and she
Made a delightful picture "winding-slowly o'er the lea."
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4. Meekly the cattle followed, but not they alone, alas!
Other submissive beings followed Fluffy o'er the grass?
And as she rambled homeward at the closing of the day
Full man a doting rustic chanced to go the selfsame wayt
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Would beg thai they might help her to usher home the cows;
And anxiously for this same boon besought frer on their knees.
Which is absurd for people winding slowly o'er the leasl
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fc.- In the dairy she took refuse, she skimmed the milk from cream:
But still those young men flocked about. Twas like a horrid dream
They begged for draughts of buttermilk, for cream they urged their plea,
Till Fluffy said. "A dairymails is not the Lfe for meJ'1
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