THE MEASLES.
Tho Measjes is a Bad Disease, " It makes you very Red and Hot; ■ Your eyes keep crying all They please, . -Whether You want to cry or not. The Doctor-listens at your Back, And bids Niirso take your nighty off, Then'down your .throat he sticks a Pack Of Spoons and Things that' make you cough.' He's glad your Fever is not high, And that your Rash'is coming- out — ' You cannot see exactly why There's much to be so. "Glad" about. The-Measles give you Awful Thinks And Dreadful Dreams of scary things, • So then your Mothpr brings you drinks, • An<Lsits beside your Bed and sings. . , All day She stays with you a lot, And hardly oror goes to Teas— .Which is the only thing that's not . Just hateful in this Bad Disease. —Emily Sargent Lewis...
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 53, 26 November 1907, Page 3
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135THE MEASLES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 53, 26 November 1907, Page 3
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