THE LITTLE LAD'S ANSWER.
Our little Ned came in one day With dusty shoes and weary feet, His playtime had been hard and long Out in the summer’s noontide heat. “I’m glad I’m home,” he cried, and hung His torn straw hat up in the hall, While in a cornc. by the door He put away Lis bat and ball.
“I wonder why,” his auntie said. “'This little lad always comes here, W hen there are many other homes As nice as this, and quite as near?” He stood a moment deep in thought, Then, with the lovelight in his eye, He pointed where his mother sat, And said, “Why? here she lives, that’s why.”
With beaming face 1 the mother heard: Her mother heart was very glad. A true, sweet answer he had given, That thoughtful, loving little lad. And well 1 .now that hosts of lads Are jus* as loving, true and clear, That they would answer, as he did, “ ‘Tis home, for Mother’s living here.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 237, 18 March 1915, Page 12
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168THE LITTLE LAD'S ANSWER. White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 237, 18 March 1915, Page 12
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