REX AND RAGS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 13, Issue 7, 13 February 1908, Page 37

REX AND RAGS

nex Urouse, he lives acrost the street; He's rich as rich can be. We're awful common, an' that's why He dasen't play with me. His father is a millionaire, Pa works fer Mister Urouse, They call their place a rnsi lence, But ours is just a house. He's got a game of indoor golf, A printin'-press fer boys, A steam-engyne, a phoneygrafiE— - I never seen such' toys ! . But he is tired of 'em all ; He'd ruther come an' play ' 1 spy, 1 or swing on our back gate, When his ma goes away. • - An' when she leaves him with his nurse He slips acrost the street, An' takes his shoes and stockings off, 'Uause I'm in my bare feet. An' asks fer 'lasses on his bread To eat, the same as we. His ma dem't know what's good to eat— That's what he says to me. He likes my hat ; so when we~ play 1 always trade with him, Though his is new an' mine is just <> A crown an' half a brim. He says he doesn't like his name, He wishes he had one Liike mine. That's ' Rags.' An' so I call Him ' Peanuts ' just fer fun. He says that I'm the very best Ot all tne irienas he knows, An' that our house is lots more fun Than anywhere he goes. An' when we play ' Pretend,' an' each (Jan choose what one we'd be, 1 always play that I am him, He always plays he's me. 'lhem when his nurse or mother caiisj He says to us, ' O dear ! ' An' always waits a lutle while, An' 'tends he didn't hear. An' then he puts his shoes back on To fix up like he was, Because he dasen't play with us, He dasen't, but he does. • — ' Youth's Companion.'