CHILDREN’S VERSE.
FOREIGN CHILDREN. Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, 0! don't, you wish that you were me. You have seen the scarlet trees. And the lions over seas; You have eaten ostrich eggs And turned the turtles off their legs. Such a life is very fine But it's not so nice as rpine. You must often as you trod Have wearied not to be abroad. You have curious things t.o eat, I am fed on proper meat; You must dwell beyond the foam, I apa safe and live at h.ome,
Little Indian Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, 0 i don’t you wish that you were me. —Robert Louis Stevenson. TICKLE TWOPENNY. “ I wish," said Tickle Twopenny, “ That it would rain to-day. “ For the flowers are needing water “And we’ve gathered all our hay. “ I think,” said Tickle Twopenny, “ I'll make it rain myself.” So he went right up a ladder And climbed upon a shelf With his watering can Soon the rain fell thick and fast But alas for Tickle Twopenny He couldn’t make it last l ' *
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)
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189CHILDREN’S VERSE. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)
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