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Copyright

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1971 by Bernard Waber. This edition is published by Scholastic Book Services, a Magazines, Inc., by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company.

division of Scholastic

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SOMETHING NICE

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Spiders!

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it!

Arthur,

you had just

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don't

to hear

want it.

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how terrible!

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am chewing bubble gum I

so

I

won't have

a daydream.

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am making

myself dizzy so

I

won't have

a daydream.

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am rolling

over and over so

I

won't have

a daydream.

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don't

want

to

have a daydream. I

really don't

to

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want

have a daydream.

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will think about arithmetic.

and how

and I

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give

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have a dozen pears

away seven

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are slumping.

straight!"

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to begin

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Mothers make an example

WHY

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of you.

CAN'T YOU BE LIKE PETER

PERFECT? PETER PERFECT WOULD NEVER EAT SPAGHETTI WITH HIS FINGERS. NOT PETER PERFECT!

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^WHEN MY SON, PETER PERFECT, TAKES A BATH, I NEVER HAVE TO REMIND HIM TO SCRUB BEHIND HIS EARS.' His Mother o

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Peter Perfect's

mother never has to raise her voice

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does he

when

she

know

means

it?

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^PETER PERFECT HAS PERFECT

V;

MANNERS. HE NEVER DROPS CRUMBS \

ON

HIS LAP.' His Grandmother

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You have crumbs on your

lap.

^PETER PERFECT'S STRAWS DO NOT GET BENT

OR MUSHY AT THE ENDS.'

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I

always

seem to

lose

righties.

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the

o

third rightie I've lost this winter.

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Have you tried lost

See, I

am

wearing two lefties

two

different

colored lefties.

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and

found?

^PETER PERFECT SLEEPS WITHOUT A NIGHTLIGHT.' His Grandfather

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about

extrafine

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superperfect

with stars

and

A

pluses?

^PETER PERFECT

PERFECT BECAUSE I RAISED HIM

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IS

PERFECTLY.' His Father

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W:

It

Say three times, fast:

PETER PERFECT'S PAPA PICKED A PERFECT PETER!

Peter

rerfic's

ricked da

Perter Perfect's popper

pata

picked a perfect peeper!

ferfic reeter!

Peter perpic's papa

pockta perpic peeta!

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If

only you were

Peter Perfect!

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