THE BABY'S QUERY.
When up "before the looking-glass My,: mamma holds me high; I see" a "sight that puzzles me, And'" almost makes me cry. " ' For there stands own mamma— I. know that it is she— And in her arms she -closely 'holds - - -A- ~ little - boy : like me. -•- ■• •' I* -look at them in ..wonder, little" boy stares 'too ; 1 try to" say, '.How is' it that ,My mamma's holding- you ?' - - , Then, niamma laughs ,and kisses. mcy And I' declare it's true-; The" ' other mamma "laughsj and then She* kisses her boy, too. '. How many mammas- have I ? Can anybody . say ? t And who, plefise, is the little boy I see 'most every day ? There is no one like my mamma 'Mong all the folks I see, Except the lady in the glass, With the little boy- like me.
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 37
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138THE BABY'S QUERY. New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 37
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