MARLEN V. RONQUILLO

In the old public school years, the Gabaldon-type schoolrooms often broke out with the enthusiastic yodelling of songs of universal appeal, sung from sea to shining sea. A popular one was about a tea-carrying ship setting out to sail, supposedly into our shores, from China, “all laden with presents for you and for me.”

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