Selected Poetry.

Evening Star, Issue 3309, 27 September 1873, Page 3

Selected Poetry.

FAMILY HEADINGS. By Obphkus C. Kf.br. An American male parent, unto his babes said ho: “ Come hither, pretty little ones, and sit on either knee, And tell me what you’ve lately hoard your mother read, and me.” In his fatherly assurance, and fond, parental way, He wanted to discover what the innocents would say About a missionary book they’d heard the other day. Full of glee spake young Alonzo, all legs and curly hair : “Yon ycad about the man they hiuig, and all the people, there ; And mamma yead the funny part, of how it made him swear,” Joining quickly in, cried Minnie-all waist and dimpled neck : “ It wasn’t half so funny, though, as that about the cheque They caught somebody forging, ’cause he was so green, I ’spect.” “ But the thing I liked the bostest,” Alonzo piped amain, “ Was haw somebody yulined away, and won't come back again, And tookt somebody's wife with him upon a yailyoad train." Then you wasn’t listening, ’Lonzo,” came swift from Minnie, small, ‘’When papa read about the girl that tookt her only shawl, And wrap a baby up in it, and left it in the hall.” “Oil, I wa'nt, hey?” trilled Alonzo, dismayed to be outdone ; “ I’m go’n to learn to yead, myself; and you can have the Sum ; And I’ll yead Herald ‘ Personals,’ aud never tell you one!” The American male parent, his hair arose on end ; On either knee an infant farm lie did reverse and bend, And from their little mouths straightway made dismal howls ascend.