What makes you come @3here@1 fer, Mister, So much to our house? -- @3say?@1 Come to see our big sister! -- An' Charley he says 'at you kissed her An' he ketched you, th'uther day! -- Didn' you, Charley? -- But we p'omised Belle An' crossed our heart to never to tell -- 'Cause SHE gived us some o' them-er Chawk'lut-drops 'at you bringed to her! Charley he's my little b'uther -- An' we has a-mostest fun, Don't we, Charley? -- Our Muther, Whenever we whips one anuther, Tries to whip @3us@1 -- an' we @3run@1 -- Don't we, Charley? -- An' nen, bime-by, Nen she gives us cake -- an' pie -- Don't she, Charley? -- when we come in An' pomise never to do it ag'in! @3He's@1 named Charley. -- I'm @3Willie@1 -- An' I'm got the purtiest name! But Uncle Bob @3he@1 calls me "Billy" -- Don't he, Charley? -- 'N' our filly We named "Billy," the same Ist like me! An' our Ma said 'At "Bob puts foolishnuss into our head!" -- Didn' she, Charley? -- An' SHE don't know Much about @3Boys!@1 -- 'Cause Bob said so! Baby's a funniest feller! Nain't no hair on his head -- IS they, Charley? -- It's meller Wite up there! An' ef Belle er Us ask wuz @3we@1 that way, Ma said, -- "Yes; an' yer @3Pa's@1 head wuz soft as that, An' it's that way yet!" -- An' Pa grabs his hat An' says, "Yes, childern, she's right about Pa -- 'Cause that's the reason he married yer Ma!" An' our Ma says 'at "Belle couldn' Ketch nothin' at all but ist 'BOWS!" -- An' PA says 'at "you're soft as puddun!" -- An' @3Uncle Bob@1 says "you're a good-un -- 'Cause he can tell by yer nose!"- Didn' he, Charley? -- An' when Belle'll play In the poller on th' pianer, some day, Bob makes up funny songs about you, Till she gits mad-like he wants her to! Our sister @3Fanny@1 she's @3'leven@1 Years old! 'At's mucher 'an I -- Ain't it, Charley? . . . I'm seven! -- But our sister Fanny's in @3Heaven!@1 Nere's where you go ef you die! -- Don't you, Charley? -- Nen you has @3wings@1 -- @3Ist like Fanny!@1 -- an' @3purtiest things!@1 -- Don't you, Charley? -- An' nen you can @3fly@1 -- Ist fly-an' @3ever-thing!@1 . . . I Wisht I'D die! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON MOZART'S REQUIEM by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS IRELAND (1847) by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 100 by OMAR KHAYYAM MR. FLOOD'S PARTY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON IMAGES: 1 by RICHARD ALDINGTON |