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A Boy’s Best Friend Is His Mother

A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother 1273 I've been thinking of late Of a time that's passed away Of a friends in whom I could confide Of my dear old mother's knce, Around which I used to play, How I missed her sweat face when she died How…

Only A Boy

Only a Boy 1475 Only a boy, with his noise and fun The verlest mystery under the sun; As brimful of mischief, and wit, and glee, As over a human fraine can be And as hard to manage us-what? ah mel 'Tis hard to tell, Yet we love him well Only…

A Boyhood Recollection

A Boyhood REcollection 2089 High up on a shelf in the pantry it stood- In fancy I see it again- A remedy certain to do you much good, Though fraught with incredible pain There is nothing in all of the various ills That mortals are called…

A Boy’s Best Friend Is His Mother.

A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. 127.3 I've been thinking of late Of a time that's passed away Of a friends in whom I could confide Of my dear old mother's knce, Around which I used to play, How I missed her sweat face when she died.…

The Boy on the Farm

The Boy on the Farm. 176.6 I've put away my tired skates, My sled is on the "bum." My overshoes I'll need no more I'm glad 'at summer's come. I've got a bran-new jack-knife- I'll make the whistles hum; I know just where the willows grow-…

The Make-Believe Boy

The Make-Believe Boy 128.4 He used to come when I was alone, And we'd play games; but the most ghost, ';d tell him stories-pirate, chomo And what I'll do when I am grown, A girl moved in the house next door- I didn't eare: I don't like…

Triumphulent

Triumphulent. 201.6 There was a boy who thought he knew Much more than grown-up people do But when they asked him how to spell Triumphulent," he couldn't tell, And said he'd only got to "hat"" And other easy words like that, But couldn't…

I Should Like to Die Said Willie

I Should Like to Die Said Willie. 224.6 Not Readable "I remember that she told me once, while sitting on her knee That the angels nover weary watching over her and me: And if I was only good-Nellie told me so before- That they'd let us…