POETRY
TvTian jjafjai wa»: » little bey you really la a)! the country round'thcn' a child so quick to miaa*. * " Hii mother never called but once, ud Le wis alwayb there; He never made the baby cry, cr pulled his lister's hair. He Bern slid down banisters or made the slightest noise. And Bern in his life was known to fight with other boys. . He always roce at fix o'clock and went to bedeteizhev • And aero lay abed till noon $ and never t»t ap lata
He finished LaHo,J?rench,: and '^freek when he was ten years old, - ; -?i. 'sfcj » And Ipsw the Spanish a: phfcbet ss soon as fie.WJta toJd. : ';>"* • ?■-"' tf | , He never, never thought of play until;fiis work was done, He laboured hard from break of day until the eet of sun. H« never Biraped his muddy shoes upon the parlour floor, And never answered back his ma, and never banged the door, ' Bat. truly, I could never sec,' said little Dick Jklolloy, 4 How he could never do these things and really be a boy.*
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 421, 12 May 1904, Page 2
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175POETRY Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 421, 12 May 1904, Page 2
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