said Betty, aged just four,
"a little girl fell off her chair
right down upon the floor;
and all the other little girls
began to laugh, but me -
I didn't laugh a single bit,"
said Betty seriously.
"Why not?" her mother asked her,
full of delight to find
that Betty - bless her little heart! -
had been so sweetly kind.
"Why didn't you laugh, my darling?
Or don't you like to tell?"
"I didn't laugh," said Betty,
"'cause it was me that fell."
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