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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Home: III. Fun for Little Folk

“There was a small boy of Quebec”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

THERE was a small boy of Quebec,

Who was buried in snow to his neck;

When they said. “Are you friz?”

He replied, “Yes, I is—

But we don’t call this cold in Quebec.”