THE BOY WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11646, 30 March 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE BOY WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR.

BY S. K. RISER.

Tbe boy wl:o lives next door 11*3 *f rack les on hi 3 face ; His ears aiul red and hang Away out into epac*, And when I bear a <'og ki-Jl And see it dee ia u-iror, I Can qu.ckly gn-ss tbe caus;— Tj = merely 'b -t one more Poor little victim knows A boy resides uext door, Hrt rr.ns across t ! ie lawn l'renur-cl »it»i jea'on" care. And, ia the. muim r tun-, Knocks down ihefl-weis there! It se<m3 tog Welnm por* delight Toyo'l ar.rnl wit^ all his might, And every w<ek or 30 A pebble rinds its way Again&t a pane of gtoas For which 1 have to pay. Ho has no teeth in front, H. 3 hands are cocked and browD, Twre he has nearly burnec? Our mmtner kitchen down ! He cails to people : 'Hey 1 Watch out ! And when they jump he whoops about I n .,'d to think if God Won'd take him irom below Up to tue sky, l'J try To bravely bear the ilow ! The little chill who3e love is ad to mo, one day Was sliitUen suddenly W. cv I was far away — Ttic \>>y v>ho lives next door forgot To y> II aiound, but ran and brought ' The doctor to the bud, And when I ccme at la-t, • Shrank from me with a look Of pity as I passed ! Tie !>'>y who lives next door Bought in h'« to. '3 and gun, An 1 [.oekctpful of tr»hh Ti> please our little one ; He ) laved be^de my darling's bed, Tun .d cartwheels and stood on his head And God was good to me — L^t's wait, a while before We utterly rondemn Toe l-oy who lives next door ! A steam hammer used in Krupp's Gun Works at E.-son, Germany, weighs l."> : ins. It. is tne largest in the woil ! When a criminal is sentenced to •death in Greece, he moat wait two yean before the execution of the sentence. A traveller who hnd just crossed the ocean vns tel'ing a friend of his extr.'inc illneps duMng the voyage, and he vu\\>Uai : 7.'(l the description of hie Hiff'ri'ijp by frying : %< Tha only tiling lcmli kep d.i my stomach wa3 a buiail .nu = !urd jlah'n.'