GRANDPA AND ME.

New Zealand Tablet, 10 July 1913, Page 61

GRANDPA AND ME.

My grandpa says that he was once A little boy like me* I s'pose he was, and yet it does Seem queer to think that he '....- Could ever get my jacket on, Or shoes, or like to play With games and toys and race with Duke, As I do every day. - He's come to visit us, you see, Nurse says I must be good And mind my manners, as a child With such a grandpa should. For grandpa's very straight and tall, And very dignified; He knows 'most all there is to know And other things beside. So, though my grandpa knows so much, I thought that maybe boys Were things he hadn't studied, They make such awful noise. But when at dinner I asked for Another piece of pie, I thought I saw a twinkle In the corner of his eye. ... So yesterday, when they went out, And left us two alone, - I was not quite so much surprised To find how nice he'd grown. You should have seen us romp and run J . My, now I almost see That p'r'aps he was, long, long ago, A little boy like me. — The Round Table.