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“A Good Play”
Robert Louis Stevenson
We built a ship upon the stairs
 All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
 And filled it full of sofa pillows
 To go a-sailing on the billows.
 
 We took a saw and several nails,
 And water in the nursery pails;
 And Tom said, “Let us also take
 An apple and a slice of cake;”—
 Which was enough for Tom and me
 To go a-sailing on, till tea.
 
 We sailed along for days and days,
 And had the very best of plays;
 But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
 So there was no one left but me.
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