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Ladder Rung One

Ladder Rung One Ladder Rung One Tom Thumb and Thumbelina and baby thumbnail Tom is starting now to speak: “listen to me Thumbelina baby {thumbnail} ewe listen tewe This old world has got me hypnotized and they stuck me on the bottom rung” Thumbelina answers him: “Tom my husband please do not speak so rough in front of the thumbnail baby she does not need to knoe about the way of the world she is just a baby not yet in collage… Baby thumbnail is speaking baby talk in gibberish: “The world is mye oyster and eye am gonna shuck it Gonna learn to drive and gonna learn to party. Narrator me: Listen to me baby the old man still loves ewe the father of the daughter and the mother she adores ewe and the author of the poem. The ladder it is steep and hard to climb them all the steps are hard please stay upon the bottom rung.

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