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auditors, who neither see nor hear her nor suspect her presence._ QUEEN Summer or Winter or Spring or Fall,-- Which do you like the best of all? LITTLE JASPER When I'm dressed warm as warm can be, And with boots, to go Through the deepest snow, Winter-time is the time for me! QUEEN Summer or Winter or Spring or Fall,-- Which do you like the best of all? LITTLE MILDRED I like blossoms, and birds that sing; The grass and the dew, And the sunshine, too,-- So, best of all I like the Spring. QUEEN Summer or Winter or Spring or Fall,-- Which do you like the best of all? LITTLE MANDEVILLE O little friends, I most rejoice When I hear the drums As the Circus comes,-- So Summer-time's my special choice. QUEEN Summer or Winter or Spring or Fall,-- Which do you like the best of all? LITTLE EDITH Apples of ruby, and pears of gold, And grapes of blue That the bee stings through.-- Fall--it is all that my heart can hold! * * * * * [Illustration: "THE FAIRY QUEEN OF THE SEASONS."] * * * * * QUEEN Soh! my lovelings and pretty dears, You've _each_ a favorite, it appears,-- Summer and Winter and Spring and Fall.-- That's the reason I send them _all_! * * * * * THOMAS THE PRETENDER Tommy's alluz playin' jokes, An' actin' up, an' foolin' folks; An' wunst one time he creep In Pa's big chair, he did, one night, An' squint an' shut his eyes bofe tight, An' say, "Now I 'm asleep." An' nen we knowed, an' Ma know' too, He _ain't_ asleep no more 'n you! [Illustration] An' wunst he clumbed on our back'fence An' flop his arms an' nen commence To crow, like he's a hen; But when he failed off, like he done, He didn't fool us childern none, Ner didn't _crow_ again. An' our Hired Man, as he come by, Says, "Tom can't _crow_, but he kin _cry_." * * * * * [Illustration: "PORE PA! PORE PA!"] * * * * * LITTLE DICK AND THE CLOCK When Dicky was sick In the night, and the clock, As he listened, said "Tick- Atty--tick-atty--tock!" He said that _it_ said, Every time it said "Tick," It said "Sick," instead, And he _heard_ it say "Si
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