That Dirty Face.
— Hobarb 'Clipper."
"Mamma can't kiss that dirty face!" The baby's eyes grew dim with, tears, Her cheiub smile slipt off apace — They fly so fast in tender years ' An hour or so had glided by, "I wonder wheie that child can be!" And hunting for her low and high, Found her asleep beneath, a tree. The dirty face was smeared and wet, Her clothes were daubed, I do declare To wash her face she'd tried and vet Had soiled herself from hem to hail ' The mother stopped. An angry look Flashed for a moment In its placi A flood of love welled up. she took And kissed ten times that dirty face '
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Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 181, 19 December 1903, Page 32 (Supplement)
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115That Dirty Face. Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 181, 19 December 1903, Page 32 (Supplement)
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