WHEN I GET INTO BED.
' I'm never'. frightened' in-the dark,Though I am very, small ; I never; sit,all. scared,, and'hark ' . . ■ For ogres in the hall. ■ _ . But when .my prayers are said ,I. have: one "awful dread, ; 'That something waits to grab my toes' .... .When 1 get into bed 1 ■ :X-try..to-think of pleasant things lEachiime I get undressed ; And how each day no evil brings • If children do v their best.- •■. But the" thought comes in my head, As I'm -taming-'down- the spread,' ' That something's going to grab my toes Whea l .climb into bedl And when there's nothing more to do, With bedclothes open-wide, It makes me shiver through and through . A-trying to decide Which foot shall ; go ahead, . CausS I'm ' sure I'd tumble dead If-something ever_ grabbed my.,toes . ■ p.' -. As' : I>get into : bed. - . . —Barges Johnson, in " Harper's Magazine."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 334, 22 October 1908, Page 3
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138WHEN I GET INTO BED. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 334, 22 October 1908, Page 3
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