THE BEST HOUR

New Zealand Tablet, 22 November 1906, Page 37

THE BEST HOUR

' Gel; down" on" the floor here, daddy, Get' "down, on the floor and -play.' And that is „ the song my baby Sings to me at- close ojf day. Get down -on the floor and tumble, Get down' with me, daddy, do ; Get down on the;floor now, daddy, Me 'ants to sit down on you.' Then overboard goes the paper, And down on the floor goes dad ; And onto ' him clambers baby, And baby is more than glad ; And daddy's a horse and waggon, * Or daddy's a ship, at sea, And rolls with a little baby As' happy^as she can be. Yea, ..rolls with the babe and tumbles, And" grumbles, and haws, and gees, And always a dimpled baby With- rounded' and dimpled knees , Sits perched aloft unf earing, And laughing with v childish glee As the daddy ship goes tossing , And tumbling across -the sea. " . And, oh, but that ship is careful,;^ The waves may r foam and curl, But never the ship goes plunging Too muoh, for the baby girl, And never the horse gets fractious, Or plunges or jumps- aside So much as to mar the pleasure 'Of the we& little girl astride. Oh, good is the hour of gloaming, When labor is put aside r And daddy becomes a horsey A wee little girl may ride ; Or daddy becomes a plunging Big ship on the stormy seas, And is guided and captained onward By a baby with dimpled knees.