GWEN GETS A DUCKING
WHEN AUNT ELIZA COMES TO TEA When Aunt Eliza comes to tea 1 fetl as Gloomy as can be! And when I hear'her firm rat-tat, And heavy footstep on the mat, My heart sinks sadly to my shoes. . Yes! All the fun of life I lose! Wait now, and hear my dreadful news. For Auntie, though she thinks she’s kind, And though I try hard not to mind, Does all the tilings that most annoy An ordinary jolly boy. She calls me “Precious Little Dear,” And pats my head, and pulls my ear. Says: “Why. you haven’t grown at all,” Although I’m really very tall— Oh my! I wish she wouldn’t call! When next she comes, I’ve made a plan. I’ll leave as quickly as I can,
Then right away from home I’ll go, And Aunt Eliza Will Not Know! She’ll wonder what’s become of me— How spilling never more to see My Aunt Eliza come to tea!
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 10
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162GWEN GETS A DUCKING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 10
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