WHEN the tidal wave of spelling
Swept upon the Western shores,
Webbie Worcester then was dwelling
At the Jones's, doing chores.
He was a poor little nigger,
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But he sought for learning's light,
And he knew a "bit to figger,"
In a fashion, how to write.
Little Webbie came from Georgia,
From the little town of Cragga.
When his master left (a Borgia),
Down there came a carpet-bagger,
Jones by name, with good intentions,
And ambitious, more or less,
Of selling off his last inventions,
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