First The Teacher Called The Roll, Clos'T To The Beginnin', "Addeliney Bowersox!" Set The School A-Grinnin'. Wintertime, And Stingin'-Cold When The Session Took Up - Cold As We All Looked At Her, Though She Couldn't Look Up! Total Stranger To Us, Too - Country-Folks Ain'T Allus Nigh So Shameful Unpolite As Some People Call Us! - But The Honest Facts Is, Then, Addeliney Bower- Sox'S Feelin'S Was So Hurt She Cried Half An Hour! My Dest Was Acrost From Her 'N: Set And Watched Her Tryin' To P'Tend She Didn't Keer, And A Kind O' Dryin' Up Her Tears With Smiles - -Tel I Thought, "Well, 'Addeliney Bowersox' Is Plain, But SHe's Purty As A Piney!" It's Be'N Many Of A Year Sence That Most Oncommon Cur'Ous Name O' Bowersox Struck Me So Abomin- Nubble And Outlandish-Like! - I Changed It To Adde- Liney Daubenspeck - And That Nearly Killed Her Daddy!