Mending Day

Mending Day.
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How quickly children’s clothes will rip and tear!
Each time I put off mending till so late.
I realize that a family of eight
Can give a lov lovting mother lots of care.
If more get born I really do deolare
I’ll put ’em into bed and make ’em walt.
My brother hopes to learn to operate.
But there is not a child that I would apare.
He’s borrowed three that he pretends are dead.
But I won’t even think of such a thin’!
And yet at mending time I’ve often said
I almost wished-though p’r’aps it is a sin-
That God had sent some paper dolls Instead
Whose clothes are only painted on their skin.
-Burges Johnson