N0THIN TO SAY.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 222, 1 October 1887, Page 2

NOTHIN TO SAY.

Nothin' to say, my daughtci ! Nolhin' at all to say !— Girls that's in love, l'\ c noticed, ginerly has their way ! Vcr inoJ Jier did, afoicyou, when hor folks objected to me— Yit here I am, and here 'you- air 'Jand. your.! mother— ■whcic is she I ' You look lots like jour mother; purty much the bumu in size ;. And about the same complected, and favour about the ej cs. Likelier, too, about livin' here, because th& couldn't staj ; It'll iuoi> L s> em like jou was dead like her! — but I hain't got nothm' to £aj ! She left \ou her little liiblc— •■writ ycr ram& aero -6 the page — And lett her ear-bobs for'jou, ef ever you come of au;c. L'\ c allus kep' 'cm and gyaurded 'cm, but if yer go n' away — Nothm' to tay, my daughter! Nothin' at all to foay ! You don't rikollect licr, T reckon ] No ; you wasn't a jeai old, then ! And now jer-how old air you? Why, child, not "*t went > ! ' When? And j erneV bnlhdn) 's m Aprilc.? and you want to ppit married t ii.it daj 1 * 4 A I wi-iht jer mother was \\\ in' ! — but — I ain't got notlim' to saj' ! Twenty j car ! and a? good a gyrl as parent ever found ! There's a slniw kelched on to yer dress there— 1 11 brcsh it oil— turn round.' • " (Hri motluM' wn^jest twenty when u 3 two ran away !) Nothm' to say, my daughter! Nothin' at 'all Osay ! —James Whitcomb Pdley in the " Century."