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I realize what made it hanker SO To be in school that day: it surely meant It loved her ! Yet, that mean, old teacher, bent On bossin' things-he did n't seem to know. Sometimes I get to wishin' I might be A little lamb like Mary's fond and true, With Susan Sanderson as Mary, see? We 'd play amidst the clover sweet with dew, And everywhere that she wast there 'd be me And if she was n't, I'd be elsewhere, too. LINES WROTE ON A SUMMER DAY WHILST THINKIN' OF A SODA FOUNTAIN WHEN I 'm a man I shalt not care to be The President of these United States; I 'dst rather be the drug-store clerk that waits On people at the soda fountain. He Hast lots more first-class fun, it seems to me. For whilst the public dost not get rebates Ma says she 'd gladly pay most any price On soda, he secures it at cut rates, For such a lay-out. And she certain And lots of times, perchance, he gets it free ! that Because there wast no servants in your Of course, I know it must be pretty fine flat To hear the brass bands and the big Is how you camest to call it "Paradise." bass drums Come marchin' by the White House all in And pa says that if Eve had dressed the way line Our women do we shouldst have missed And playin', See the Conquerin' Hero the fate Comes! Of goin' forth into the world to stray, And, yet, no presidential job in mine. For she 'd be somewhere, still, inside the The soda clerk's the one that gets the gate plums ! Delayin' things, as women dost to-day, A-tryin' for to pin her hat on straight. A FEW THOUGHTS THOUGHT ON HEARIN' FOLKS FIND FAULT WITH THE WEATHER I LOVE cold winter weather with the snow A-driftin' on the walks I hast to clear, And frost a-bitin' nose and cheek and ear, With the thermometer 'away below.' " I also love the summer when it 's SO Red hot that clothes next to you all "adhere" And everybody 's frantic, pretty near, And sayin' things that hot folks do, you know? I love both seasons, but I wish I could SONNET WROTE WHILST THINKIN' OF OUR FIRST Enjoy them whilst they 're with us, for, PARENTS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN you see, O ADAM and O Eve! How very nice It 's winter when the summer seems so good, It must have been to live where you was And summer when the winter pleases at. me. No neighbors anywhere with whom to But, somehow, I have never understood spat, Why either of them whilst it 's here' Nor any one to give you free advice. "n.g." THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK

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This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.

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