The Children's Corner

Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 19

The Children's Corner

- -\ - A MUSIOAL SKETCH.

ALLEGKO. This is the baby— hear how lie oiows t IJe laughs* all dowri,irom the top of his crown -To the ends of his comical little pink toea. . became to this world to take a surrey, : And he finds it to funny ,he thinks he'll stay. At first he was filled with a nuld surprisej He 'opened his month, and he opened his eyes, r He looked and wondered, and sacked his thumb, And to this conclusion he's finally come — « That it's all a joke. Give him a poke— The sly little rogue !, he knows, he knows. It's the funniest world he's been in yet , He thinks all the people a very queer set, ■ And he chuckles and laughs, and thrives and grows— • ; .On nothing but laughter. Ido suppose That' w. thinking it over he can't keep sober. Even in sleep he seems to keep A feint remembrance of something he's heard ; The ghost of a joke that was very absurd • Haunts his repose, For three little dimples steal out and in, Two in his cheeks, one in his chin, And his face reflects the light that gleams On the sunny side of the land of. dreams. When he wakes it willie to laugh ; He's always at it— l can't tell the half. I'm sure he knows I That little old woman with bells on her toes ; j .He's coaxed her, and hoaxed her, 1 and stolen I ' ■ the trick > _ i- Of making music wherever he goes. • I The brightest, sunniest, merriest, funniest. ■ Most nonsensical mite of a man . ['That 'any one knows! ' ' The cunningest, craziest, tipsiest elf ! I When other folks fail him he'll laugh at himself. , What do you think ? Tip him a wink 'And off he goes I 'Boft him'and rumple him, toss him and tumble him, . ' > - ' .Hear how he crows'! He laughs all down from the top of his crown • To the ends of his comical little pink toes.