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Mabel, Mabel, set the table (m)
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Don't forget the
Red!
Hot!
Pepper!That's a jump-rope rhyme I remember from when I was little. It's much older than me of course.I don't think of Mabel as a sweet antique. I think of it as such a stereotypical cranky-old-lady name that when I see it in a book, it always has the ring of satire about it.
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"I don't think of Mabel as a sweet antique. I think of it as such a stereotypical cranky-old-lady name that when I see it in a book, it always has the ring of satire about it."
I think of Mabel the same way.
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C'mon!It's don't forget the salt and pepper
vinegar!
vinegar!
vinegar!and that's even older than me.
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I knew there had to be more things to put on the table, I just couldn't think what they were:)
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