WHEN TEDDY SMITH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 130, 3 June 1899, Page 7 (Supplement)

WHEN TEDDY SMITH.

When Teddy Smith first put on panta, I He felt so very grand He wouldn't mind his mother, Or ho wouldn't hold her hand. But on the street he walked ahead,, . j And tried to whistle some. j | He thought perhaps he'd go to war, And fire an awful gun. He wouldn't ride his hobby-horse, , He called Jack Spratt -"a fib!' ■ He sat at meals in father's chair, And scorned his gingham bib. His mother mustn't spread liis bread, Nor cut things on his plate; She mustn't say, .'No more, my dear! No matter what he ate. She mustn't kiss him when he fell \nd bumped him on the stones, V And she must say, 'Dear sir,' just aa • She did to Mr Jones! So hard to please this gentleman j His loving mother tried, \ It quite enlarged his dignity, . ;■■■:■) s And swelled his lofty pride. | And all was brave, and all was well, ' Until that mother said, , At eight o'clock, of course, flear sir, You'll go alone to bed!' Ah, would you have me say what then Befell the great big man? For if you undertake to guess— I hardly think you can! He turned the corners of his mouth Most fearfully awry, He rubbed his grown-up fist awhile • Across his grown-up eye. Then burying in his mother's lap r Both pride and manly joy, . ! He said in just the 'littlest' voice, | 'I guesa I'm just a boy!' j Catherine- Young Glea»