“And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny,
Such cozy dimensions go clearly to show
You were an exceedingly small pickaninny,
Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.”

The old Cradle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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