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FOR CHILDREN
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Matilda,

Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death.


Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,

It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes;
Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,
Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,