TOMMY'S alluz playin' jokes, An' actin' up, an' foolin' folks; An' wunst one time he creep In Pa's big chair, he did, one night, An/ squint an' shut his eyes bofe tight, An' say, "Now I'm asleep." An' nen we knowed, an' Ma know' too, He @3ain't@1 asleep no more'n you! An' wunst he clumbed on our backfence An' flop his arms an' nen commence To crow, like he's a hen; But when he falled off, like he done, He didn't fool us children none, Ner didn't @3crow@1 again. An' our Hired Man, as he come by, Says, "Tom can't @3crow,@1 but he kin @3cry."@1 An' one time wunst Tom 'tend'-like he's His Pa an' goin' to rob the bees; An', first he know -- oh, dear! They ist come swarmin' out o' there An' sting him, an' stick in his hair -- An' one got in his yeer! -- An' Uncle sigh an' say to Ma, An' grease the welts, "Pore Pa! pore Pa!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WORLD-SOUL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON TO SENECA LAKE by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 93. AL-NOOR by EDWIN ARNOLD PREFACE TO ERINNA'S POEMS by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS IN THE DEEP WHITE SNOW by ANNE ATWOOD OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY by JOHN BEAUMONT |