A TROUBLESOME AUNT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1443, 18 May 1912, Page 10

A TROUBLESOME AUNT.

I'm tired of livm' with a Aunt, - Been "brought up" all I 'spect to bs. Tli' girl I play with on tli' sly— (Aunt calls that "runnia' wild")—says

s 'i® Thinks somewheros there's a kind of Aunt That's been n child —way back sometime. Ws'ro goin' off an' hunt fer on«— I've got two pennies an' a dims! I'm tired of bein' always watched. An' said to "Guess you'vo overot, An' iust when I' ma-havin' fun It's "Ilavo I sewed my patchwork yetn Tli' girl I know says Aunts ain't queer If there's a Uncle 'round soincwhore. I ast her won't sha please get one, An', my, how tight sho pulled my hair I I'm dreffio wicked if I won't Love ev'ry kind of folks, you sco— Tli' squint-eyed man that pickod hw plums, An' heathens black as they can be! I do not love tli' kind of man That 'vented needles that will sew: He'd better stayed abed all day, • Whoro "mischief-makers —tuet mu» go.

I think ifs too much to 'xpect Of ono poor little girl-don t you?— To keep ton fingers mended up. An' ton mor© ioi'S nil sowcci in, toor That's w'y it is I'm all alone, A-sittin' on our attic stair, 'Cause I jus' went an' inked oss heel--But sho found out tlw holo was there!

—Mario Louise Tompkins, in "Harper's Magazine."