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Title: Merry Words for Merry Children

Author: A. Hoatson

Release Date: May 27, 2008 [EBook #25621]

Language: English

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MERRY WORDS
FOR
MERRY
CHILDREN.

[Illustration]

Published by
W. Hagelberg, London & New York.

Printed by
W. Hagelberg, Berlin.

MERRY WORDS
FOR
MERRY
CHILDREN.

[Illustration]

By A HOATSON.

Published by
W. Hagelberg, London & New York.

Printed by
W. Hagelberg, Berlin.

JIM'S DREAM.

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Jim was a boy who was fond of clowns,
And thought they were excellent fun;
He talked so much of them and their ways,
That one night he dreamed he was one.

He dreamed he was feeding five fat geese
On boiled slate-pencils and rice:
He said it was wholesome food for geese,
But they said, "More wholesome than nice."

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He dreamed that he set two geese to dance,
While he took a fiddle and played.
He said, "You look pretty and gay, my dears."
"We feel very tired," they said.

"What, tired!" he said, "with that nice pink sash,
"And that waistcoat of vivid blue?"
Then he tried to teach them the way to sing--
A thing geese never can do.

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He made them try to stand on their heads
And wave their feet in the air,
Although they said the pain in their necks
Was more than a goose could bear.

He said that it didn't hurt his back--
He liked it, for his part;
And all the geese declared he had
A most unfeeling heart.

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He knocked the bottom out of the pot
That had held the pencil-stew,
And held it in the air while five
Reluctant geese jumped