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First Line: I takes and paints
Last Line: Then nobody will buy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters


I takes and paints,
Hears no complaints,
And sells before I'm dry;
Till savage Ruskin
He sticks his tusk in,
Then nobody will buy.





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